541737 - www.mozilla.com could link to distribution-specific instructions, not just the binary tarball

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 778834

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

Description

[Marien Zwart]

Inexperienced users of linux distributions like Ubuntu (migrated from windows) will probably end up on mozilla.com (either directly or through getfirefox.com) to upgrade firefox. When they do they end up downloading a .tar.bz2 they probably do not know how to install. Arguably that is not the best way to install Firefox on a linux distro: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Linux recommends using the distribution's package manager instead.

It would be nice if mozilla.com would notice the "Ubuntu" in the visiting browser's user agent and give hints on how to upgrade through the distribution's package manager. I am not sure what the best balance between useful hints and low maintenance would be here, but linking to a fixed page on the distro's wiki for a few popular (as far as hitting pages on mozilla.com with the download button on it goes) distributions would already be an improvement, I think.

This is very similar to bug 519417 but for firefox itself, not flash.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Closing old Mozilla.org website bugs due to them not being relevant to the new Python-based Bedrock system. Re-open if this is a critical bug and should be resolved on the new system too.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Still valid, though might be WONTFIXed, pending whatever the mozilla.org module owner thinks...

Comment 4

[Benjamin Kerensa [:bkerensa]]

We discuss a Ubuntu button on Firefox site but after a bit of discussion it was explained such changes would take away from our focuses on other projects and plus Ubuntu and other Linux distros do often ship FF by default.