Closed Bug 268603 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

start.mozilla.org/firefox/ (in Firefox 1.0.x default bookmarks) is 404

Categories

(Marketing :: General, task)

Product:
Marketing
Component:
General
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: Waldo, Assigned: cbeard)

References

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URL
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Details

Firefox 1.0 bookmarks contains a bookmark for the Firefox Start Page.  The link
used is:

http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/

This redirects to <http://www.google.com/firefox/>.  However, the slash at the
end causes the link to misfire, and Google responds with a Page Not Found error.
 We need to add a redirect on m.o for this so that this:

http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/

...redirects to this (note the lack of ending slash):

http://www.google.com/firefox

Ccing the webmaster dummy owner so people watching it know about this...it
should be easily fixable by either the cheap way (.htaccess) or the more
difficult way (lower-level hacking by someone at the Mozilla Foundation).
This is a google bug, but fairly important because we have default bookmarks
pointing here.
Severity: normal → major
I would fix this but I'm not sure how to change a start.m.o redirect.  If it 
was just a normal www.m.o I could fix it.

Anyone know how start.m.o is set up?
Nicholas, I already said that this was a google bug (start.mozilla.org is a
CNAME to www.google.com).
This also affects PR1 as http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/ is the default home
page for Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1
We need to get Google to fix it.
-> Marketing.
Assignee: bugs → cbeard
URL: http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/ → http://www.google.com/firefox/
Component: Web Site → General
Product: Firefox → Marketing
QA Contact: chofmann
Summary: Firefox Start Page bookmark does not redirect properly → start.mozilla.org/firefox/ (in Firefox default bookmarks) is 404
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Will make contact with our technical contact at Google to get this resolved.
um, wouldn't it be easy enough to change the default bookmark to 

http://start.mozilla.org/firefox

without the terminal slash, since that works just fine?

(In reply to comment #7)
And how do you intend to do this on all the machines that have had a recent
version of Firefox installed (in addition to your own machine)?
Adding myk@mozilla.org as perhaps we could add redirect of
http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/ to be http://www.google.com/firefox as well as
the current, and correct, http://www.google.com/firefox/ for the time being as
we work to have Google make the necessary fix on their end.
Of course, now I read back to bsmedberg's comment about it being a CNAME, so
will ping Google again to get status on this.  (Unless there is some sysadmin
DNS hackery that could make it better?)
related to bug 266774 ?
(In reply to comment #11)
> related to bug 266774 ?

That bug was about changing the link to the page on Firefox's side. This bug is
about fixing the old link that appeared in previous builds, on Google's side.
Ping.

There has to be some sysadmin hackery that can fix this. If Google won't someone
on Mozilla.org's end needs to.

Please give a status update on this bug.
Summary: start.mozilla.org/firefox/ (in Firefox default bookmarks) is 404 → start.mozilla.org/firefox/ (in Firefox 1.0.x default bookmarks) is 404
*** Bug 299886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
http://www.google.com/firefox/ seems to be back!
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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