Terry R. Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

The same thing happened on 3.6.22 and hasn't been resolved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685610
or
6.0.2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687068
7.0 Release notes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689676

I would think these should be posted before the release date, no?

	Terry R. Reporter
	Comment 1 • 13 years ago

Still getting webmaster comments on this.  Can we get this bug fixed please?

	Anthony Ricaud (:rik)
	Comment 2 • 13 years ago

I don't really understand how this can happen. Do we have more details about those users?

	Terry R. Reporter
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

The users update Firefox via auto-update.  When Firefox restarts, that is the first page that loads.

	Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until August 21)
	Comment 4 • 13 years ago

Are there using a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 branch instead of the final version? That kind of urls smells of our beta-testing community, not end users.

	Terry R. Reporter
	Comment 5 • 13 years ago

The ones who have reported it stated they were using release versions.  I had the same thing happen on my version 3 install on 3.6.22.

	Darren Cook
	Comment 6 • 13 years ago

I'm using ubuntu 10.04, and this was the new version of firefox it updated it to.

	Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until August 21)
	Comment 7 • 13 years ago

CCing Chris Coulson from the Ubuntu team.

	Chris Coulson
	Comment 8 • 13 years ago

What locale are these users using?

	Chris Coulson
	Comment 9 • 13 years ago

Also, we actually set startup.homepage_override_url to about:blank for some reason in Ubuntu, which should disable the whatsnew page from ever showing

	Darren Cook
	Comment 10 • 13 years ago

I've got LANG=en_US.UTF8
I have my homepage set to about:blank anyway. The What's New page only shows (or rather, fails to show!) the first time after a firefox update. The problem happens each time the firefox version number changes, then never again.
Possibly relevant: in Add-ons, I have the "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2" disabled. I don't remember why, maybe just on principle; I do remember I couldn't find a package I could remove to get rid of it completely.

	Chris Coulson
	Comment 11 • 13 years ago

Ok, if you disabled ubufox then you will get the whatsnew page after every upgrade. In any case, that isn't making much sense as it will use the upstream default URL (which we don't change, and is set to http://www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/). Are you sure that you haven't change "startup.homepage_override_url" locally?

	Darren Cook
	Comment 12 • 13 years ago

I have these (not in bold, so I've not changed them):
startup.homepage_override_url;http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/
startup.homepage_welcome_url;http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/

I think the issue is that the whatsnew page does not exist for the version numbers being used. Currently that would be:
  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/3.6.24/whatsnew/

3.6.24 is not an ubuntu-only release, so the problem is either the whatsnew pages are not being made, or the default URL in firefox config is incorrect. Should the URL be this:
  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.6.24/releasenotes/

(BTW, http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/3.6.24/firstrun is not there either.)

	Kohei Yoshino
	Comment 13 • 11 years ago

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/firefox/3.6.23/whatsnew/ is redirected to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.6.23/whatsnew/