We need a static HTML page to host a bookmarklet that allows App developers to install their Apps from the Firefox Marketplace to their laptops.

Rough Draft is at https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/appInstall.html

Title in the sidebar should be "Test Installation on Desktop" for now.

IMHO, it's OK to go with that text for now, we can revise as needed. It's more urgent to wordsmith the accompanying email.

merged in https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/7a1cf86db804ccd51e3c40da5e8fc7b74cd925e6

dev instance is here https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/developers/installation

Please reword as follows: We're excited to say that we're close to a developer preview of our Apps ecosystem, including the Firefox Marketplace! In keeping with our focus on mobile, we're going to concentrate the developer preview on Android users. We'll be asking users to visit the Marketplace on their Android phones, install the Apps they discover there, and let us know what they think. We'll have more to say about that later this month. To ensure that we don't distract our hardworking marketing, support, and testing folks from their Android and Firefox OS work during the developer preview, we have decided to temporarily disable the App install buttons on the Marketplace App detail pages. We've heard from many of you that being able to install your Apps on your desktop machines is a useful development tool, and we don't want to stand in the way of you making more awesome Apps. Our solution is a simple bookmarklet that will allow you to continue installing Apps on your desktops. (the rest as before)

"temporarily disable the App install buttons on the Marketplace App detail pages." -> can we change this to "temporarily disable the App install buttons on the desktop Marketplace."? (a) app install buttons are disabled on also category browse pages and search results not just detail pages. (b) buttons are disabled only on desktop.

Per Chad W and cvan, please reword as follows: We're excited to say that we're close to a Firefox Marketplace alpha release! In keeping with our focus on mobile, we're going to concentrate the Marketplace alpha on our Android users. We'll be asking users to visit the Marketplace on their Android phones, install the Apps they discover there, and let us know what they think. We'll have more to say about that later this month. To ensure that we don't distract our hardworking marketing, support, and testing folks from their Android and Firefox OS work during the Marketplace alpha, we have decided to temporarily disable the App install buttons on the desktop Marketplace. We've heard from many of you that being able to install your Apps on your desktop machines is a useful development tool, and we don't want to stand in the way of you making more awesome Apps. Our solution is a simple bookmarklet that will allow you to continue installing Apps on your desktops.

OOPS. trying again. Per Chad W and cvan, please reword as follows: We're excited to say that we're close to a Firefox Marketplace Aurora release! In keeping with our focus on mobile, we're going to concentrate the Marketplace Aurora on our Android users. We'll be asking users to visit the Marketplace on their Android phones, install the Apps they discover there, and let us know what they think. We'll have more to say about that later this month. To ensure that we don't distract our hardworking marketing, support, and testing folks from their Android and Firefox OS work during the Marketplace Aurora, we have decided to temporarily disable the App install buttons on the desktop Marketplace. We've heard from many of you that being able to install your Apps on your desktop machines is a useful development tool, and we don't want to stand in the way of you making more awesome Apps. Our solution is a simple bookmarklet that will allow you to continue installing Apps on your desktops.

Done: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/07d2b6c

Already pushed to production: https://marketplace.mozilla.org/developers/installation and developers have been developed.