Comments on: A More Dynamic Experience

By: Recap: A More Dynamic Experience | Giant Spatula

Recap: A More Dynamic Experience | Giant Spatula — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:37:01 +0000

[...] a previous post, I wrote about the details of a test we were going to conduct on the Firefox download page. To [...]

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:03:55 +0000

Please share with us your test result’s whenever they become available.

By: More Improvements Coming to Firefox Web Sites < Blog of Metrics

More Improvements Coming to Firefox Web Sites < Blog of Metrics — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:21:41 +0000

[...] Rolnitzky just highlighted our plans regarding that last touch point. Among the changes being [...]

By: John Silvestri

John Silvestri — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:44:36 +0000

I did notice, though I was wondering if that’s significantly ‘below the fold.’ (Also, I just wanted be sure someone didn’t think “Why do we need to keep that link at all?”)

I considered ‘Upgrade’ to be a slight misnomer until I re-read your explanation and realized this is “for users that have a version of Firefox above 3.0.” I was thinking that it was for users who are running the most current copy. If such a page also existed, I might expect the heading to read ‘Download’ instead of ‘Upgrade.’

These semantics aside, it’s definitely a smart idea to give people more information on the software they’re running.

(Frivolous aside: I wonder if anyone looks at the page in Firefox and downloads it, not realizing they’re already running Firefox. I’d be willing to believe it happens sometimes.)

By: Pascal Chevrel

Pascal Chevrel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:51:19 +0000

The download box on the screenshots proposes Firefox for MacOSX to your IE6 visitor

The comparizon table compares Firefox 3 with IE7. IE6 shouldn’t have the “compatible with modern web pages and technologies” tick. Also, I think the IE6 logo should be used instead.

Another point, some people stick to IE6 because they are on windows 98 and we don’t support that platform, I don’t know if we can detect that via the user agent, but if this is indicated in IE6 UA, maybe we should give an optional proposal (like switching to Firefox 2.0.0.20 even though it’s no longer supported).

By: DR

DR — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:37:54 +0000

@John: Great point. You’ll notice that we’ve kept the download buttons on all of the pages so that you’ll still be able to download Firefox with Firefox.

By: NGUYỄN-Mạnh Hùng

NGUYỄN-Mạnh Hùng — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:14:33 +0000

Will Mozilla use a geolocation detection system like Google? For instance, I’m using an English version of Windows XP. Eventhough I use IE 6 or 7 (English, of course) to access “google.com”, it always redirect me to “google.com.vn” with the content displayed in Vietnamese(*).

If yes, then that’ll be really great, and I’m sure with you that more IE users from Vietnam will want to try Firefox right away

Hùng,
From the Vietnamese l10n team.

(*): Just works with google.com, though. When go directly to “gmail.com” or “google.com/notebook”, those pages are still displayed in English by default.

By: John Silvestri

John Silvestri — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:03:20 +0000

That sounds like a fine idea…but I’d just like to make one small request: Don’t make it too hard to download Firefox with Firefox.

While I’m surely the minority, there are definitely times when I might be going to help a friend out with a flaky computer, and I want to download the latest copy of Firefox to my USB key to install on the troubled box. This download will likely be done with the latest copy of Firefox…the small hitch being that I didn’t necessarily download it, but rather…used the update functionality. I’d rather not have to go to the FTP mirrors to get it…so some kind of less-prominent, but still obvious, link would be appreciated.

By: dria

dria — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:29:32 +0000

This is very cool…looking forward to seeing what the results look like.