511435 - have a set of default bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

We should provide a set of default bookmarks in Fennec.  Reasons:
- so that the awesomebar is not an empty area
- so that people can find help and other useful sites by typing in the awesomebar, even after they've lost track of our introductory pages
- possibly so that people can get started with great sites for mobile users

If those are the reasons/goals (and there are possibly more of those!), then some candidate default bookmarks are:

- support.mozilla.com (maybe tag it with 'help' as well, for findability)
- addons.mozilla.org
- mozilla.com/mobile
- FAQ  (tag this one with "help" also?)
- services.mozilla.com (re: weave)

(anything we put on the first run page)

Are there others? Perhaps of the "here are cool things for mobile people" variety?

- firefox geolocation page?

Comment 1

[Caitlin Looney]

> FYI, Support will be different URL (tbd). My guess: mobile.support.mozilla.com

> Not sure what going to Addons.Mozilla.org from your phone does, unless its a mobile specific add-ons page (and recommends the top few by category). It's too bad that we ask people to review this page and then train them to search for those particular add-ons on their mobile. Perhaps add this bookmark when Collections "send to phone" capability works?

>Yes, I vote to keep FAQ

>The first page contains info and link to learn more/get Add-ons and Weave on the mobile (as well as .gif animation). We could consolidate the bookmarks and title this page differently?

>Mozilla.com/features/m

My two cents.

Comment 2

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

proposal, after talking with Caitlin:

1. Welcome to Firefox (first run with inclusion of "What's New)
2. Product Information 
3. Weave Setup
4. Mobile Add-ons for Firefox (do we need "for Firefox?)
5. Mobile Support for Firefox (do we need "for Firefox?)

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This has an l10n impact, and needs clarification on its impact on packaging.

Comment 4

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Are there others? Perhaps of the "here are cool things for mobile people"
> variety?

It would be great IMO to have this kind of a "Getting Started" page for Fennec. This would require localization and guidelines to follow, just like we have them for Firefox now.

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Any updates on this?

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We should get this bug resolved today, either FIXED or WONTFIX.

My hopes for our release schedule decline with each day that we're not string frozen.

Comment 7

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

ok.  spoke with Jay and Caitlin.  Here's the list:

Firefox: Welcome
Firefox: About
Firefox: Synchronize using Weave
Firefox: Customize with add-ons
Firefox: Support


None of the links have changed -- the bookmarks just have new names.

Comment 8

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

title: Firefox: Welcome
link: about:firstrun

title: Firefox: About
link: about:firefox

title: Firefox: Synchronize using Weave
link: STILL FIGURING THIS OUT SORRY!

title: Firefox: Customize with add-ons
link: to the mobile part of AMO -- what will this be?

title: Firefox: Support
link: http://support.mozilla.com -- plus something to point to mobile content

So, clearly some of these URLs need sorting out.

Comment 9

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: patch

-adds a BrowserStartup component to initialize the places DB when needed
-uses json.in rather than html.in, since the html importer is browser/-specific. bookmark.inc format for localizers is the same, though.

Comment 10

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: patch

forgot a few tweaks

Comment 11

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

More info:

the link for "Firefox: Synchronize using Weave" is
https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/weave

the link for "Firefox: Customize with add-ons" is
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile

the link for "Firefox: Support" is
https://mobile.support.mozilla.com

Comment 12

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

To be clear - those pages either don't exist or have non-final content at the moment.  Be not afraid - those are the URLs.

Comment 13

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 399613 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

I guess this means we'll hit some places init in our Ts, but I don't see a way around it.

Nice build-foo :)

Comment 14

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 399613 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=me, with a small nit that a few of the titles don't have the corresponding links in their titles, if you could add those, and perhaps a note that they're 404s for now.

We can remove that note once the site is up, with no l10n-impact.

Comment 15

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: updated patch

Comment 16

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/fc7d3c0db893

Comment 17

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Verified with 20090910 1.9.2 nightly build on my n810