608614 - 404 links for Firefox 4 beta on "what's new" localized pages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[George Fiotakis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; el; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; el; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

The link that should point users to a Firefox beta 4 download page returns a 404 error page from mozilla.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load a localized "what's new" page (try locales such as "el","fr","es" etc.) that do have a localized beta download page as well.
2.Refresh the page in case the link for the Firefox 4 beta is not served.
3.Click on the link
Actual Results:  
The link points to a "xx/beta/" directory (where "xx" is a locale code) which does not exist on mozilla.com thus returning a 404 page.

Expected Results:  
The link should point to a "xx/firefox/beta/" directory to serve the right page:
http://www.mozilla.com/xx/firefox/beta/  (where "xx" is the locale code again). 

The severity is normal but I think it should be fixed asap.
Sounds like an epicFAIL quote: "Experience Firefox 4. The future of the Web is waiting for you!" -> 404. :)

Comment 1

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

My mistake, this happens on 3.6.12 what's new page. Sorry.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Fixed on production in r76643, this promo was supposed to be for when beta 7 is released, I forgot to postpone it to 3.6.13 after the chemspill release last week. 

Milos, can you verify that it works correctly (no beta promo) in like an hour? thanks

Comment 4

[George Fiotakis]

I can verify that it does work correctly now (no beta promo at all) though i can't see why we should wait for beta 7 to show it, after all "crash protection" is really old news now and we still want as many beta testers as we can get (?).

Comment 5

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Checked for at least dozen locales, all good now.

Marking verified,

Thanks guys.

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

@george, the engagement team asked us to delay this promo to beta 7, Laura is in charge of this project, you can contact her on IRC (lmesa) in #marketing channel if you want to know more about the reasoning behind :)