Mozilla.org locale redirects

[grahamperrin]

Downloads and other important addresses: locale redirection issues

https://github.com/mozilla/newfirefox.mozilla.community/issues/15 produced:

• https://mzl.la/newfirefox

For me, with a preference for en-GB (above de-de), there’s inappropriate redirection to https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/. At a glance, this seems comparable to:

• Mozilla bug 1416562 - inappropriate redirect from /firefox/quantum/ to /de/firefox/quantum/ where a preference for German is inferior to en-GB, or en, without en-US

– but I’ll refrain from reporting a separate issue.

https://framasphere.org/posts/4105814#b485bc30a9d70135d2112a0000053625 lightly fishes for other edge cases.

Now, as I write this, I suspect that a variety of URLs may be affected, including:

• https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/

– redirects to https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/ …

Not bugged

https://www.mozilla.org/ correctly redirects to https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/

[mkohler (Michael Kohler)]

Thanks for the report. As you correctly identified, this seems to be a bug with mozilla.org itself, nothing with this website or our short link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416562#c2

[atoll (Richard Soderberg)]

I reached out to the two teams involved in Mozilla.org language redirects and one of them triaged the bug into their queue. Thanks for filing it!