349092 - Beta 2 redirects for new bookmarks and URIs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Phil Schwan]

Most or all of the new bookmarks (from bug 348165) don't yet have content, but we don't want to hold up beta 2 for that, or ship beta 2 with a bunch of 404s.  So we need to point these URLs someplace as a placeholder.

I tried all of the URLs from 348165, and these are the ones that gave me 404s:

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/livebookmarks/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/community/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/customize/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/help/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/about/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/whatsnew/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/firstrun/
http://www.mozilla.com/blocklist/

If I had three minutes to put together a list, I would guess:

livebookmarks: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/livebookmarks.html
community: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
customize: http://addons.mozilla.org/
help: http://www.mozilla.com/support/
about: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
whatsnew: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html (presumably that will exist when we ship)
firstrun: where does the browser go now?  central?
blocklist: ?

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://de.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/de/firefox/livebookmarks/ and friends,
http://de.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/de/firefox/headlines.xml and friends,
come to my mind.
The first currently redirects to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.htmlfirefox/livebookmarks/.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** Bug 349728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

When running the B2RC1 installer for Windows, I actually read through the EULA (!) and checked the links...

Section 4 includes the text "http://www.mozilla.com/legal/privacy/firefox-en.html"  (which is a hyperlink to the same). That page doesn't exist, though. (404)

[Also, a couple of previous links go to .org, which seems a little inconsistent?]

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

The first-run page after the install is also a 404.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/2.0b2/whatsnew/

Comment 5

[Justin Fitzhugh]

Per Schrep:

1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/whatsnew/
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/firstrun/

Go to:

1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index.html
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index.html

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> livebookmarks: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/livebookmarks.html
> community: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
> customize: http://addons.mozilla.org/
> help: http://addons.mozilla.org/
> about: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

These are all sensible redirects to use for now, yes. So those mappings are:

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/livebookmarks/ 
   --> http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/livebookmarks.html

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/community/
   --> http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/customize/
   --> http://addons.mozilla.org/

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/help/
   --> http://addons.mozilla.org/

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/about/
   --> http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

> whatsnew: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html
> firstrun: where does the browser go now?  central?

Both of these should go to the Firefox Beta 2 Start Page (see comment 5):

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/whatsnew/
http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/firstrun/
  --> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index.html

> blocklist: ?

http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/blocklist/

Is where this is supposed to point, but I don't know if we have any content for it at the moment. I think we should leave this one as it is.

(In reply to comment #3)
> [Also, a couple of previous links go to .org, which seems a little
> inconsistent?]

That appears to be a bug where prefs that should have been selected by --enable-official-branding weren't, so we got the fallbacks. See bug 350453.

(In reply to comment #4)
> The first-run page after the install is also a 404.
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/2.0b2/whatsnew/

The fact that the RC is pointing to mozilla.org is bug 350453. As Justin mentions in comment 5, we're gonna server-side redirect those ones for now.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/help/
>    --> http://addons.mozilla.org/

Er,  --> http://www.mozilla.com/support/

(thanks, dbaron)

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Per Schrep:

Reed caught our mistake here; the redirects have to go from the non-branded URLs which will be:

1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/2.0b2/whatsnew/
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/2.0b2/firstrun/
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/2.0b2/releasenotes/

to
1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html

This has been done, tested and verified. As have the redirects in comment 6 and comment 7.

Thanks, Justin (and Reed and dbaron)!