735411 - [3.6 EOL/Start Page Migration] Implement new start page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: Firefox Start, defect)

Description

[Laura Forrest]

See wiki page here for info: 

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Product_Marketing/3.6_Upgrade/StartPage

Timing: With 3.6 EOL project which falls on the Fx12 launch 4/24

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Assigning this bug to Christie as she is going to lead this project.

Comment 2

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

My initial thoughts from an l10n perspective (dumping my brain ;) :

1/ Will this page be on www.mozilla.org or will a new mini-site be built for this migration ? 

2/ The wiki page says:

"keep main search functionality and general design of the current about:home page"
-> Do you know if google.com/firefox had per locale specific search parameters or can we put the same search parameters for all locales? (CCed Pike in case he knows, but that's probably a question Google could answer better).

3/ The page must work with rtl languages (general design, graphics...)

4/ We have almost all locales we had for 3.6 supported on mozilla.org and we also host the translations of the snippets we use for the snippets service there, it would probably makes things simpler (from an l10n POV ;) ) to have this page hosted there.

5/ We probably have special cases we need to deal with that require specific messaging, for example we lost the Occitan locale with 3.6, given that Occitan is a regional language in France I would prefer that we put a message in French on this page instead of English and take this oportunity to propose them to help getting current Firefox in Occitan. For some other locales, we may want to propose them to either use a final release in English or a beta version in their language.

6/ Wherever it is hosted, we need to be able to have per-locale css fixes to make the page look good for all locales.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

PS: The current URL that people have is http://__AB_CD__.start3.mozilla.com/firefox, with __AB_CD__ being the locale code.

I guess the most performant way to do this would be to host a mini-site that CNAMEs to those.

Regarding "current" behaviour, I'm unsure if "current" refers to currently-3.6 or currently in-product about:home. Mostly impacts what we want to do with snippets and how.

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

PS: src for the URL is at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/other-licenses/branding/firefox/locales/browserconfig.properties#2, fyi.

Comment 5

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Design complete, see bug 734197.

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Some Firefox 4+ users have set the old Start Page (www.google.com/firefox) as their homepage in certain circumstances. I have seen many tweets claiming "The Start Page says: You're not on the latest version of Firefox. My Firefox is up-to-date!" That means the static copy on the Start Page is inappropriate. Do you have a plan to implement some kind of version check on the Start Page? If you've discussed that, please discard my comment.

Comment 7

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Kohei: That's a good point, thanks (though it should be a separate bug).

Comment 8

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Couple of changes from Ty regarding the current implementation:

* Reduce the vertical space between "Your Browser..." and "Upgrade today for the latest in speed and security."
* New image for alert graphic, Ty will provide
* Overlay should line up with left an right edges of search box (should be exactly same width)
* Ty will work with Jon to make better background gradient

Comment 9

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/fx36start

https://github.com/mozilla/fx36start/commit/2ad114aa90cbd0eed1ddd4aa47222d8a45437f45
updated width/positioning of modal to match search box below, only showing modal for version 3.6.x, added alt text to 'No thanks...' link, reduced space after 'Your browser...' headline. bug 735411

Comment 10

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Ty, the changes look good to me. Will you verify?

Comment 11

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Closing as all dependencies have been resolved.