990977 - Sponsored tiles: don't expose explanation URL as a localizable string

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #974745 +++

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/diff/f3c44cfc3900/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/newTab.dtd

SUMO URL is currently exposed as a localizable item: this is not needed.
SUMO will take care of redirecting users to the correct localization, if available, no point in having this link as a string in the .dtd file.

Also, with the current status, we would need a new string every time we need to update this URL, and it wouldn't be possible on Aurora or Beta.

Comment 1

[maxim zhilyaev]

Which support URL i should be using to access the explanation page on SUMO?

The common pattern in to point to a SUMO page within a browser is to use a short cut as, for example, in this link:  
https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/31.0a1/Darwin/en-US/social-api,
Which gets redirected to 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-social-features-your-browser?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=firefox-services-add-social-features-your-browser&utm_source=inproduct

I currently use "how-do-sponsored-tiles-work" string to form this SUMO url:
https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/31.0a1/Darwin/en-US/how-do-sponsored-tiles-work
And I get "Page-not-found".

So, which string I should be using instead of "how-do-sponsored-tiles-work" to get a proper SUMO page?

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-sponsored-tiles-work is already the URL for the localized page.

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

What I'm saying is that localizers won't need to change it, so no point in exposing it in the .properties file, just hard-code it.

To give you an example (this page about Sponsored tiles doesn't seem to be localized yet). If I visit this URL
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-windows
I get automatically redirected to 
https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Installare%20Firefox%20su%20Windows
because I'm using a browser set to Italian and the localized page is available.

Comment 4

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: v1

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/6367da464037

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6367da464037