294891 - Make the Google start page show off Firefox more, by using XUL rather than HTML tabs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[mikem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4

It's be cool if the first time someone ran Firefox, they saw the Firefox branded
Google start page, but when they went to use it, they discovered the tabs were
'proper'.

Ie, www.google.com/firefox was more like www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get Firefox.
2.Admire the sexines of www.google.com/firefox


Actual Results:  
Nice page. But hangon - can't this browser run proper web apps? Why are we using
silly HTML tabs?

Expected Results:  
OMGZ TEH TABX0RS ARE REAL

INTARNUT EXPLORER DOESN'T DO THIS!!!!ONEONEONE

Ahem.

Comment 1

[nemo]

Well.  This bug is a little oddly worded, but I agree that it would be nice if
http://www.google.com/firefox 
was a xhtml/xul mix, or pure xul - I think it could be made quite attractive.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This isn't a Tech Evangelism bug, since the content of that page is covered by agreements between Mozilla and Google.  I don't know what obscure component does cover these things (Marketing?), but kicking this to Marketing:General for a better chance of triage into the proper place.

Comment 3

[Paul Kim]

Hey Smokey - good guess. I think Reed filed this against mozilla.com which is also close enough. Anyways - changes to the Start Page are indeed a joint operation between Mozilla and our search partner Google, so marking as invalid (as nothing's actually broken on the page).