Firefox release notes show Ubuntu release notes

My guess is it should be pointing to the relevant page at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/ . Confirmed on Intrepid with abrowser 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 . I agree that accessing the Ubuntu release notes through the Firefox help menu is not what is expected. It's also pointing to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/804 on Intrepid, but I assume either it will be updated to 810, or this bug will be fixed by release.

Confirmed in Hardy as well.

Confirmed in Intrepid as well.

I can confirm this bug is still in Jaunty development version. I can not determine if the page shown, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810 , is the correct release notes page for firefox.

right now in Jaunty, I'm taken to http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.6/releasenotes/

Can we close this for Jaunty?

Problem persists for me with 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.

Rolf, which version are you using? Are you sure you chose Help -> Release Notes on an Ubuntu-supplied version?

I'm using the same version from Jaunty and yes, that is the menu I choose.

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

To help clarify this bug, I use Jaunty on a daily basis. Apparently, when Jaunty is in use, at some point, the updates have replaced the Ubuntu 8.10 release notes with firefox release notes. If I do a fresh install using any ISO image, the release notes are from Ubuntu 8.10. They do not update when update-manager is run, so I do not know how long it takes before they catch up.

I did test this using Jaunty Desktop amd64 CD, Jaunty Desktop i386 CD, Jaunty Alternate amd64 CD, Jaunty Alternate i386 CD in both Ubuntu and Xubuntu versions. All cd's are dated 20090225.

Reassigned to ubufox since it ships its own links, we dont touch mozillas links in browser end

Help→Release Notes still points to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810 in Jaunty

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

ubufox:
  Installed: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Let me propose a patch for this (bzr branch linked as well).

thanks for the patch; taking this one.

I have the same problem with Charlie Kravetz.
I installed Jaunty with Alpha-4 CD.

The problem still persists for me in jaunty. Clicking the Release Notes sub menu under Help menu opens the release notes for "Intrepid".

This bug is still there in Karmic beta1

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx. It now defaults to Ubuntu 9.10 release notes, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910 , instead of firefox release notes. Since Lucid is still alpha2, I would expect the notes to update before the final release. Ubuntu 9.04 defaults to Ubuntu 8.10 release notes.

My mistake, the report is about ubuntu release notes appearing in firefox when it should show firefox release notes. It still shows the ubuntu release notes in firefox 3.6 in lucid.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:18:29PM -0000, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> My mistake, the report is about ubuntu release notes appearing in
> firefox when it should show firefox release notes. It still shows the
> ubuntu release notes in firefox 3.6 in lucid.

this is a feature ... at least we always do that ;) ... so wontfix.

thx

 - Alexander

Alexander, where are users expected to find Release Notes for Firefox then? Help>Release Notes is used by Mozilla for browser release notes, not release notes for whatever someone decides. How about keeping Release Notes as the normal Firefox link and adding Ubuntu Release Notes to be the Ubuntu-specific link?

Alexander Sack <email address hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:18:29PM -0000, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>> My mistake, the report is about ubuntu release notes appearing in
>> firefox when it should show firefox release notes. It still shows the
>> ubuntu release notes in firefox 3.6 in lucid.
>
> this is a feature ... at least we always do that ;) ... so wontfix.

All the other menu items are about Firefox. So at least you should
separate the item from the others and change the text to something like
"Ubuntu Release Notes" to make it clear that it is not about Firefox.

   Florian
--
GUIs programmieren mit Python und Glade:
<http://www.florian-diesch.de/doc/python-und-glade/>

I believe that "this is a feature" was a joke, judging by the wink emoticon

I would say not all the other items are about firefox, either.
    Clicking on "Help -> Report a Problem" wants me to report a bug using apport, which will report it to launchpad.
    Clicking on "Help -> Get online help" sends me to another Ubuntu page, https://launchpad.net /ubuntu/karmic/+sources/firefox-3.5/+gethelp.
    Clicking on "Help -> Translate this Application" sends me to https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/firefox-3.5/+translations.

I am thinking this gives it a customized version in Ubuntu.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:43:31PM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Alexander, where are users expected to find Release Notes for Firefox
> then? Help>Release Notes is used by Mozilla for browser release notes,
> not release notes for whatever someone decides. How about keeping
> Release Notes as the normal Firefox link and adding Ubuntu Release Notes
> to be the Ubuntu-specific link?
>

ok. I think we can do that.

 - Alexander

Jaunty reached end-of-life on 23 October 2010, so this bug won't be fixed in that version of Ubuntu. The bug is marked as Triaged in later versions.

This is fixed in Natty. The release notes menuitem has gone entirely from the help menu now, and has moved to a location where it makes no sense to show the Ubuntu release notes (about:)