736001 - 10.0.3esr is reported out of date on the WN page (needs function/.htaccess change by webdev?)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0.3/whatsnew/ says "Your Firefox is out of date. For security reasons, we recommend upgrading to the latest and greatest version." which is nonsense, it's the latest ESR release with all security fixes in place.

Comment 1

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

I'm pushing a temporary fix to trunk now, with production to follow

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/.htaccess?r1=103102&r2=103101&pathrev=103102

There are 2 issues here:

1) We need to figure out if our ESR update snippets are offering up a WN page - RelEng/QA can you confirm?
2) We need to fix the function that reports out of date Firefox versions to exclude supported ESR version numbers.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

We have this in the snippets:
detailsUrl=https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/10.0.3/releasenotes/

We can change that for ESR, though.

Comment 3

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #1)
> http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/.
> htaccess?r1=103102&r2=103101&pathrev=103102

This caused recursive .htaccess redirects on trunk. I opted to instead copy the firstrun page over. Pushed to production.

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=103106

Comment 4

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Ben Hearsum [:bhearsum] from comment #2)
> We have this in the snippets:
> detailsUrl=https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/10.0.3/releasenotes/
> 
> We can change that for ESR, though.

Sounds good, I'll clone for that.

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I tried to reproduce this by taking 10.0.2esr/mac with a new profile and updating it to 10.0.3esr, but was not able to do so. The whatsnew page wasn't opened after the update, which is because we have actions='silent' set in the update offer.

On the default homepage (about:home) there was a snippet shown in the middle of the window:
Thanks for choosing Firefox! To get the most out of your browser, learn more about the latest features.

Comment 6

[u279076]

Alex asked me to spotcheck this again from QA side...

Win7 10.0esr -> 10.0.3esr does not display a what's new page, nor does it say "firefox is out of date" in about:home. In  other words, same as comment 5.

Comment 7

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

The https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0.3/whatsnew/ is shown when the firefox is updated on our RHEL systems (and I guess CentOS and derived systems too). It's shown only on first run after the update. It looks like we don't use the "silet update" feature mentioned in this bug.

Anyway, I can confirm the bug is fixed now.

Comment 8

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

(In reply to Martin Stránský from comment #7)
> It looks like we don't use the "silent update" feature mentioned in this bug.

That's part of the in-app updater, so doesn't apply to external package management.

Comment 9

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

It comes from firefox-branding.js:

pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");

Reproduction steps:
1) download some old official ff version (9.0 for instance) - I testes US/Linux/x86_64, run it with default profile. 
2) download an official 10.0.3esr, run it with the same profile
3) startup.homepage_override_url is shown in 10.0.3esr

Tested on Fedora 15/x86_64/offical firefox binaries from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

Comment 10

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

I believe we can close it now, Bug 737535 has been checked in.