Closed Bug 755411 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

"About Firefox Beta" Release Notes link is 404

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

ARM
Android
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(firefox14 verified, blocking-fennec1.0 betaN+)

VERIFIED FIXED
Tracking Status
firefox14 --- verified
blocking-fennec1.0 --- betaN+

People

(Reporter: cpeterson, Assigned: akeybl)

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(Whiteboard: no-code)

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(1 obsolete file)

STR:
1. Install Firefox Beta
2. Go to Settings > About Firefox Beta
3. Tap "Release Notes" link

AR:
404 trying to load https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/14.0/releasenotes

ER:
Beta release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/14.0beta/releasenotes/
Did we ever link release notes appropriately for XUL beta's?
We already ifdef aurora, we could do the same for beta:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/app/mobile.js#502

That ifdef doesn't exist for XUL fennec, so it was probably added recently:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/xul/app/mobile.js#468
Also, who decided the urls for these aurora/beta release notes? I'm having trouble finding a valid /auroranotes/ url.

We could also update these to mozilla.org addresses to avoid a redirect.
(In reply to Margaret Leibovic [:margaret] from comment #3)
> Also, who decided the urls for these aurora/beta release notes? I'm having
> trouble finding a valid /auroranotes/ url.

Oh, bug 726679.

However, the inconsistency between .../auroranotes/ and ...beta/releasenotes/ seems odd.
having a broken link/404 in our own product looks lame and unprofessional. this should be fixed.
Jaclyn, can you help me figure out what we should do about these URLs? Will the beta release notes URL always be at a URL of this form?
https://www.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/mobile/%VERSION%beta/releasenotes/

And are we continuing to put aurora release notes at URLs of this form?
https://www.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/mobile/%VERSION%/auroranotes/

I just want to be sure before landing a patch to change things.
This just matches what the URLs of the current live pages. We can always change this if we come up with a different URL scheme.

I also did a s/mozilla.com/mozilla.org/ here.
Assignee: nobody → margaret.leibovic
Attachment #626106 - Flags: review?(mark.finkle)
This makes us look bad, so it would be nice to fix for the next beta.
blocking-fennec1.0: --- → ?
a new FAQ for native UI is being written by PR right now. I don't expect it to be ready within  the next couple of weeks so I would recommend taking off that link from the About page
Can we at least get a placeholder up in the meantime?
blocking-fennec1.0: ? → betaN+
Whiteboard: no-code
Comment on attachment 626106 [details] [diff] [review]
update release notes url to match current live pages

Looks like we don't need this anymore.
Attachment #626106 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #626106 - Flags: review?(mark.finkle)
Assigning to Alex per bug 756908 comment 7.
Assignee: margaret.leibovic → akeybl
Should be fixed in http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=105367 on the web side. No need to make code changes.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Alex, can we mark this fixed for FF14 then?
Verified Fixed - in-product link now works
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
This is not fixed for Fennec Nightly. Today the in-product link points here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/16.0a1/releasenotes/
(In reply to Richard J. Turner from comment #17)
> This is not fixed for Fennec Nightly. Today the in-product link points here:
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/16.0a1/releasenotes/

This is expected. There are no release notes for nightly developer builds.
Ah, I didn't know that. Wouldn't it be better if the link went to a page that explains that rather than a 404?
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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