887528 - On Linux, the Firefox download page displays the Mac OS X installation instructions after I click the download button. (e.g. "drag the Firefox icon into the image of your Applications folder")

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 0. Be using Linux.
 1. Visit http://getfirefox.com
  (which redirects to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?from=getfirefox )
 2. Click the big green "Firefox / Free Download" button

ACTUAL RESULTS: Some steps appear with apparently Mac-specific install instructions.[1]  (e.g. "drag the Firefox icon into the image of your Applications folder" and "Drag the Firefox icon from the Applications folder into the dock.")

EXPECTED RESULTS: Either Linux-specific install instructions, or just something simple like "Enjoy". (Anything would be better than instructions for a completely different platform.)


[1] The specific instructions that appear are:
{
    1. Start the process by clicking Run. Your download should begin automatically. If not, click here. It could take a few minutes, but it’s worth the wait.
    2. When prompted, drag the Firefox icon into the image of your Applications folder. Click Run to launch the Mozilla Firefox setup wizard. Then, just follow the steps (we've made the process as painless as possible).
    3. Drag the Firefox icon from the Applications folder into the dock. Then, just click on Firefox whenever you want to use the web! Now you’re ready to leap boldly into a new era of Web surfing. Double-click on the Firefox icon
}

I'll attach a screenshot, too.

I'm hitting this while running our official (just downloaded from getfirefox.com) Firefox 22 release on Ubuntu Linux 13.04:
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

To be clear, the displayed instructions are wrong (for Linux) at every single step, too -- in particular:

>     1. Start the process by clicking Run.

There's no "Run" button on the download for Linux. (it's a tar.bz2, not anything runnable)  So this starts off by telling the user to do something that's impossible.

>     2. When prompted, drag the Firefox icon into the image of your
> Applications folder. Click Run to launch the Mozilla Firefox setup wizard.
> Then, just follow the steps (we've made the process as painless as possible).

None of this applies.

>     3. Drag the Firefox icon from the Applications folder into the dock.

None of this applies  either.

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/1001

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/ae0c293a01a51ee4a9f5a24d58c4d532df87bbf2
Bug 887528 - On Linux, the Firefox download page displays the Mac OS X installation instructions

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/a8765ba51dd0a5ec3b05e4c5836823c06fb67aec
Merge pull request #1001 from kyoshino/bug-887528-linux-download

Bug 887528 - On Linux, the Firefox download page displays the Mac OS X installation instructions