752716 - Post-upgrade homepage override: Page not found.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolas B. Pierron [:nbp]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #739793 +++

After the update from 11 to 12, firefox open an additional tab to

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/12.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=rv:11.0

which resolve to a 404.


Configure arguments

--prefix=/nix/store/l04nw1hvnwi2giplh1qlvp6cvvwbsdq2-xulrunner-12.0 --enable-application=xulrunner --disable-javaxpcom --enable-optimize --disable-debug --enable-strip --with-system-jpeg --with-system-zlib --with-system-bz2 --with-system-nspr --enable-system-sqlite --disable-crashreporter --disable-tests --disable-necko-wifi --disable-installer --disable-updater


Looking for whatnew inside inbound sources:

browser/branding/nightly/pref/firefox-branding.js:pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/?oldversion=%OLD_VERSION%");
browser/branding/official/pref/firefox-branding.js:pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/?oldversion=%OLD_VERSION%");
browser/branding/unofficial/pref/firefox-branding.js:pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");

I would have made the change to keep "unofficial" and "nightly" synchronized with "official" but we don't have any pages for versions newer than

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=rv:11.0

Comment 1

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

We can only suppress the whatsnew page when we do updates through the update system, and it sounds like you have built your own copy of Firefox so that doesn't apply.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Gavin, can you advise whether we hit http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/13.0/whatsnew/ instead of http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/whatsnew/ in any normal user scenarios? If so, I can coordinate putting an htaccess redirect in place.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It looks like you're using nightly branding, but building 12.0 (a non-Nightly version). That's not really something that www.mozilla.org supports. You have a couple of options for fixing this:

- use your own branding package (with a suitable custom URL)
- build with a patch to change the URL in the default branding packages (hardcode http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/prerelease.html, perhaps)

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #2)
> Gavin, can you advise whether we hit
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/13.0/whatsnew/ instead of
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/whatsnew/ in any normal user
> scenarios? If so, I can coordinate putting an htaccess redirect in place.

No, we never ship "13.0" (non-"a" versions) with unofficial/nightly branding, so this isn't a problem for us.

Comment 5

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (use [e-mail] for email) from comment #3)
> It looks like you're using nightly branding, but building 12.0 (a
> non-Nightly version). That's not really something that www.mozilla.org
> supports.

Thanks Gavin!