<div dir="ltr">Bingo! I didn't expect this to turn around so quickly, but I think you nailed it.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/4463/files#diff-4223a0866ea97c5a79021d7e1e267ee0R525">https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/4463/files#diff-4223a0866ea97c5a79021d7e1e267ee0R525</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>November 17th, a PR is merged that redirects visitors from /learnmore to /features. Ubuntu includes a custom configuration pointing at /learnmore. Every time an Ubuntu machine loads Firefox with a vanilla profile (e.g. when Ubuntu is used in automated testing), the /features page loads. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll open a conversation with <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">www.mozilla.org</a> team about addressing this. We may wish to reach out to Ubuntu, but the more urgent step is to handle those requests for the benefit of any humans driving Firefox for the first time. Thanks all!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Kev Needham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kneedham@mozilla.com" target="_blank">kneedham@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Did we kill the learnmore page on or about that date?<br>
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Ubuntu points at:<br>
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<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/firefox/%VERSION%/firstrun/learnmore/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mozilla.org/%LOCAL<wbr>E%/firefox/%VERSION%/firstrun/<wbr>learnmore/</a><br>
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from startup.homepage_welcome_url.a<wbr>dditional<br>
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This page redirects to the features page (click on <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/49.0/firstrun/learnmore/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/<wbr>firefox/49.0/firstrun/learnmor<wbr>e/</a> to see)<br>
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Did we push any changes to prod around that time?<br>
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kev<span class=""><br>
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On 2017-02-14 6:18 PM, Justin Crawford wrote:<br>
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Hi-<br>
<br>
We have a Firefox first-run experience at<br>
e.g. <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/51.0.1/firstrun/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.mozilla.org/firefox/51.0.1<wbr>/firstrun/</a><br></span>
<<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/51.0.1/firstrun/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/firefo<wbr>x/51.0.1/firstrun/</a>>. This page is intended<span class=""><br>
to begin a relationship with a new user that we hope will last a long<br>
time. We are always optimizing it to that end.<br>
<br>
Starting on 2016/11/20, we noticed a _huge_ increase in visitors<br>
to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.mozilla.org/firefox/featur<wbr>es</a><br></span>
<<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/firefo<wbr>x/features</a>>. This is a pre-download<span class=""><br>
marketing page (and it's a bit out of date). The amount of traffic it's<br>
getting now is astonishing and surprising -- before 11/20, it got<br>
practically none.<br>
<br>
I just installed Ubuntu (16.10) in a virtual machine on MacOS. Firefox<br>
(49) is in the Ubuntu launch bar. When I start Firefox, it opens a tab<br>
to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.mozilla.org/firefox/featur<wbr>es</a><br></span>
<<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/firefo<wbr>x/features</a>>.<span class=""><br>
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Here are my big questions:<br>
1. What changed on 11/20 to cause an instantaneous, sustained, and very<br>
large increase in traffic to /features?<br>
2. Can we choose where that traffic is going, or is it beyond our control?<br>
3. Are people launching all those browsers, or are they bots?<br>
<br>
I'm emailing this list because I hope some people reading...<br>
* ... have other operating systems/distributions and can tell me if a<br>
vanilla Firefox profile loads /features. What OS? What version of Firefox?<br>
* ... pay attention to development on some linux distribution, and might<br>
know what changed on 11/20. (One thought: Iceweasel -> Firefox on debian?)<br>
* ... know stuff about Selenium or other test frameworks, and/or AWS and<br>
other cloud providers (and/or something in the dark) that might explain<br>
very large volumes of traffic doing the same unexpected thing all of a<br>
sudden.<br>
<br>
Feel free to reach out directly.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
<br>
--<br>
Justin Crawford<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Justin Crawford<div><a href="mailto:hoosteeno@mozilla.com" target="_blank">hoosteeno@mozilla.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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