521314 - Investigate showing a different first-run page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

We should think about showing something different than our default homepage as first-run page, e.g. the relnotes.

Comment 1

[Ian Neal]

Yes, would be good.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: Use relnotes instead

This makes us go to the relnotes on first run (redirects to the "get involved" page for nightlies).
I know this is a locales file, but it doesn't break anyone and if locales don't adapt to it, there's nothing bad that happens, so IMHO it should be OK even with a hard string freeze in place.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 405472 [details] [diff] [review]
Use relnotes instead

oops, want 2.0 approval, have no time machine around right now to push into beta.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

Pushed as http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/e636c7577a37

Comment 5

[Peter Weilbacher]

Hmm, I am now directed to that exact URL on first-run (tried with Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091014 SeaMonkey/2.0pre), with %VERSION% still as part of the URL! This leads to a 400 Bad Request. Should that not somehow get replaced by the actual version number? Or is there something server-side still missing?

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

Uh, that doesn't sound good... are we not using the urlformatter like Firefox does?

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

Right, we don't. reopening. I should have a fix to use the formatter here.

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: use the formatter

This patch makes us use the formatter for this one, I tested it with a profile that correctly ended up with the following output:
Document http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0pre/ loaded successfully
(and I was correctly redirected to the get-involved page)

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

Thanks for the fast r/a, pushed as http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/9db84f526a83