591319 - Release notes' installation instructions incomplete

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Cees T.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: 

"""
Installing

See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing+Firefox

Please note that installing Firefox 3.6 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available. You can reinstall an older version later if you wish to downgrade.
"""

The informative link is missing, leaving many Linux users to search for hours until they find the instructions. See bug 361043 and bug 358084.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Cees T.]

Added keywords according to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describekeywords.cgi

ue - For bugs with a specific detailed suggestion for improvement of the user experience. The problem describes a confusing or unhelpful aspect of the user interface.

uiwanted - For bugs that require UI design support, either for a requested feature enhancement, some new function which needs some UI, or a fix to existing UI.

ux-discovery - User experience principle: users should be able to discover functionality and information by visually exploring the interface, they should not be forced to recall information from memory.

ux-efficiency - User experience principle: interfaces should be as efficient as possible, minimizing the complexity of actions and the overall time to complete a task.

Comment 2

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

The current release notes have a link to a SUMO knowledge base article which has a install instruction for Linux users.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/21.0/releasenotes/