486631 - Clicking "Learn More" in Thunderbird's extension manager redirects to Firefox-specific add-on page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: API, defect, P3)

Description

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Clicking "Learn More" in Thunderbird's extension manager redirects to Firefox-specific add-on page, it should redirect to TB's version.

e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/5373 which is clicked from ThunderBrowse in Thunderbird extension manager redirects to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5373

It should redirect to:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/5373

Comment 1

[David Ascher (:davida)]

Nick: this is one of the bugs I was talking about yesterday.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Just ran into this...  Note I'm also using the default browser and not ThunderBrowse, so it's sending the URL to Firefox to process.  UserAgent isn't going to help for that redirect, it needs to identify the app in the URL.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, the API must let us tell it that we're Thunderbird and we must be telling it, since otherwise we'd just be getting back Firefox recommendations, so I can't imagine anything that would make this a Tb bug: we get back a link that leads to a bad place, we display it, when you click it it leads to a bad place.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Sorry for spam, temporarily need to move back to clear blocking request flag.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

The old version of the API didn't include the application in the <learnmore> links.  The new version does, as you can see here: https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/z/en-US/thunderbird/api/1.3/list/featured/all/

I expect the new version in production around mid-late march.

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Post-fix screenshot

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED; after changing several entries to point to preview.addons.mozilla.org, rather than services.addons.mozilla.org, the "Learn More" link goes to:

https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1865/?src=api