279559 - Thunderbird download link leads to English version, not to Localized version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Artem Skoretskiy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Thunderbird has a localized versiom, but the link from the main page of
mozilla.org leads to English version.
So i suggest to to the same as it is done with Firefox - site detects your
language and operation system, and offers link to corresponding build.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Link leads to English version

Expected Results:  
Link leads to localized version (according to user's language)

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht]

Dang, this is embarrassing. Sadly, from reading the source of the webpage,
I get no clue how it works for Firefox, so I can't really take this or just
submit a patch.

Comment 2

[Artem Skoretskiy]

Maybe server decide the right language by the Accept-Language header
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4)

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

Where's the firefox download link that detects the language? I can't find it.

Comment 4

[Artem Skoretskiy]

http://www.mozilla.org - in green box (with big green arrow) in the middle-left
part of the page.

For me (russian locale) text in green box is following:

Free Download
Firefox 1.0.3 for Windows, Russian (4.7MB)
Other Systems and Languages

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

hard coded in http://www.mozilla.org/download.js and inserted via INCLUDE command.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This wouldn't be hard to fix if we were willing to remove all languages that
didn't have builds for all three main platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux/x86).

(That said, I'd be uncomfortable doing that unless I knew that the localized
builds were just the english builds repackaged with different langpacks.  Are
they?  Has somebody verified this?)

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

from bug 286108, it appears the localized builds aren't built automatically by
the build system (you may have to check). But from
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/all.html , it seems we have those
builds in our download mirrors anyway.

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht]

Generally, MoFo QA takes care that nothing but the l10n stuff changed between
the en-US build and a contributed localized build.

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** Bug 305008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

This seems fixed. Can somebody verify?

Comment 11

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Yes, there are individual bugs still with the listed locales, but that's a 
different bug.