As per bug 343901 comment 14, http://www.mozilla.com//thunderbird/dictionaries.html needs a notice that the dictionaries listed there will only work in <= 1.5.

Wow, that's an old page. I'm up for killing it and redirecting to AMO's dictionaries page. mscott: thoughts?

The dictionaries on amo require Thunderbird 2 and up, since their install location was changed from appdir/components/myspell/ to appdir/dictionaries/. The dictionaries on the old page are compatible with Thunderbird 1.x only.

According to <http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/all-older.html>, Thunderbird 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until October 18, 2007; so I disagree with killing the page, and redirecting it to AMO.

I've just come across an instance in the support newsgroup, where someone directed a Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 user to this page. Is there anything preventing this bug from being fixed now?

Seems like the page should be redirected to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/dictionaries now

Reassigning to jslater to make the call. I'm still recommending redirection.

(In reply to comment #6) > Reassigning to jslater to make the call. I'm still recommending redirection. Let's redirect it!

It has been over 2 years since the release of Thunderbird 2. Does <http://www.mozilla.com//thunderbird/dictionaries.html> get any traffic anymore?

This page still gets hit (I've just seen a bug report on it). Not only that, but searching in google for "Thunderbird dictionary" brings the mozilla.com page up as the number 1 hit. That's not good. I think this patch will do the fix - it removes the two old dictionaries.html, and then redirects the resultant page to amo. I'm not too confident that the rewrite rule is correct/optimal, but hopefully you can advise on that.

Comment on attachment 450626 [details] [diff] [review] Proposed fix You're only redirecting en-US. You should be using the same locale-matching prefix as the other rules. Also, please redirect to a.m.o/thunderbird/dictionaries

Now with the locale matching prefix as well.

Comment on attachment 451392 [details] [diff] [review] The fix that looks better

Can someone commit this for me... I'm getting access denied on trunk (I thought that I'd now have this with the revised commit policies, but maybe not...).

Alex is the moz.com guy

r68934 on trunk

(In reply to comment #17) > r68934 on trunk Thanks, I've just tried this out on the trunk server and it seems to be working fine. Alex, can you or someone push to production please?

r69011 on production

Verified. If I go to <http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html> I am redirected to <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:3> If I set intl.accept_languages to "de, en-us, en", and go to <http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html> I am redirected to <https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/browse/type:3>