870321 - about: -> "release notes" link go to an old page in FirefoxNigthly 23

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joris Muller]

Attachment: release_wrong_link.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130508 Firefox/23.0
Build ID: 20130508031113

Steps to reproduce:

Enter "about:" in the address bar and click to the "release note" link in the sentence "Read the release notes for this version."


Actual results:

The link point to "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/23.0a1/releasenotes/" but is redirected to "https://www.mozilla.org/projects/devpreview/releasenotes/". A new webpage is open about "Mozilla Developer Preview (1.9.3 alpha)". The last new feature date is "Alpha 5: 14-June-2010 ".


Expected results:

The link should open one of these pages :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/23
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

Comment 1

[Joris Muller]

This bug seem to be recurrent :
bug #382550
bug #382557
bug #177282
bug #205451
bug #307462

Comment 2

[Samvedana (:Samvedana)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130612 Firefox/23.0
Build ID: 20130612004016
Os: Windows 7

Steps to reproduce:

Enter "about:" in the address bar and press enter
Click "release note" link in the sentence "Read the release notes for this version."


Actual results:

The link point to "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/23.0a2/releasenotes/" will directed to "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/devpreview/releasenotes/". A new webpage is open about "Mozilla Developer Preview (1.9.3 alpha)". The last new feature date is "Alpha 5: 14-June-2010 ".


Expected results:

The link should open one of these pages :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/23
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

Comment 3

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

No such link exists in "about:" any more.