Firefox.com lacks "Download for Ubuntu" button but offers Generic Linux Download

RESOLVED WONTFIX

Status

Product:
www.mozilla.org
Component:
General
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enhancement
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Reported:
6 years ago
Modified:
5 years ago

People

(Reporter: bkerensa, Unassigned)

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Description

•
6 years ago 
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

Went to Firefox.com


Actual results:

Was offered a inadequate generic Linux download button with a bzip2 archive of Firefox.


Expected results:

Offered a Download for Ubuntu button
 (Reporter)

Updated

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6 years ago
URL: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCente...
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: General → Other
Product: Mozilla Services → Websites
QA Contact: general → other

Comment 2

•
6 years ago 
Confirmed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Component: Other → www.mozilla.org
QA Contact: other → www-mozilla-org

Comment 3

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6 years ago 
Firefox is already the default browser in Ubuntu and Canonical is following our rapid release process, I am therefore not sure who the target audience would be. On the other hand, I can see the extra work for Mozilla in putting Ubuntu download links (proper platform detection, design work for all of our download pages, localization work for the download button...).
 (Assignee)

Updated

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6 years ago
Component: www.mozilla.org → General
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org
 (Reporter)

Comment 4

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5 years ago 
Pascal,

I would be able to take the work item if it was +1'ed
 (Reporter)

Updated

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5 years ago
OS: All → Linux
 (Reporter)

Comment 5

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5 years ago 
@pascalc: In further discussing it with some other MoCo folks it does seem like the work required to implement such would be much higher for Mozilla than other open source projects that Ubuntu is trying to target through this initiative.

I'm going to pass this info along to the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical so they are aware of where things stand currently upstream.

Updated

•
5 years ago
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Last Resolved: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Duplicate of bug: 541737
 (Reporter)

Comment 7

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5 years ago 
@Kohei: This is not a duplicate of 541737 since this is not linking to instructions but instead a specific download itself. Very similar but still two different issues but either way after discussing this with a number of MoCo people it does not appear Mozilla has any interest in doing this due to the technical requirements plus the importance of keeping the Mozilla brand intact.

I will be passing the information down to Ubuntu so they can mark their item as declined by upstream.
Resolution: DUPLICATE → WONTFIX
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