471271 - broken http://www.mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefoxpobierz.html should redirect to valid Firefox download page, because this URL is listed as #1 in IE7 Live Search for people in Poland

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites Graveyard :: mozilla-europe.org, defect)

Description

[Piotr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
Build Identifier: 

Hi,

LiveSearch box in IE7 after searching for "Firefox" will show this URL as first one: http://www.firefox.pl/pobierz.html

http://www.firefox.pl/pobierz.html is redirecting to http://www.mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefoxpobierz.html . However http://www.mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefoxpobierz.html is a dead and. "Document wasn't find".

This could be a problem, because many novice users may feel lost in this situation.

I suggest redirecting http://www.mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefoxpobierz.html to valid Firefox download page ( As far as I know it is: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefox/ ) So everyone will download Firefox easily :)


btw. I will try also to contact with firefox.pl admins, they also could fix it in their domain. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run IE7 under Vista
2. Type "Firefox" in search box

Actual Results:  
Won't find "download" button for firefox ;)

Expected Results:  
Should redirect to proper download page for Firefox.

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

I am going to put a temporary redirect on mozilla europe to fix that, although the real solution is to solve it at firefox.pl level, thanks for helping on this Piotr.

CCing some of our polish mozillians

Comment 2

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

COWABUNGA dudes!

That one is on me since I have the ultimate pleasure of paying for the domain ;)

I recently set up a new redirect through dreamhost, and it's a full domain redirect to mozilla-europe/pl/firefox so I'm not sure how to solve that now :(

In order to get this clear, I should get back the redirect and set up index.html which redirects instead plus pobierz.html which does the same.

Pascal?

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

The temporary redirect is in place on mozilla europe so we are serving the right page to these users. I think it is an ok solution for now.

Comment 4

[Piotr]

Hi again,

Hubert from Aviary.pl just contacted with me. firefox.pl/pobierz.html is now redirecting to .mozilla-europe.org/pl/firefox/


So I think it is solved now. Thanks for help. :)

Comment 5

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

its not yet fully fixed.
Pascal applied kind of dirty hack.

Thanks for reporting it Piotr and thanks Pascal for giving the fix :)

I'll keep it open to remind me that we should fix it properly.