Sep 26
We want Firefox to override server-supplied 404 error pages in certain cases. The Firefox 404 page should provide the user with tools we think are more useful to the user for resolving the situation, than the server supplied page. This includes alternate ("did you mean") URLs derived from the Places database and some pre-loaded search links/controls. This is being tracked in bug 482874.
Status On hold for the week while I worked on higher priority Firefox 3.6 stuff. There are still some L10N issues to address and some general touch up before I can roll a new patch. Next Steps Address remaining issues raised in last round of code review and get another patch out. This will probably have to wait until after the Firefox 3.6 code freeze that's coming up.
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404 Error Page Status
Feature DescriptionWe want Firefox to override server-supplied 404 error pages in certain cases. The Firefox 404 page should provide the user with tools we think are more useful to the user for resolving the situation, than the server supplied page. This includes alternate ("did you mean") URLs derived from the Places database and some pre-loaded search links/controls. This is being tracked in bug 482874.
Status On hold for the week while I worked on higher priority Firefox 3.6 stuff. There are still some L10N issues to address and some general touch up before I can roll a new patch. Next Steps Address remaining issues raised in last round of code review and get another patch out. This will probably have to wait until after the Firefox 3.6 code freeze that's coming up.
Notes
- The feature is controlled by a pref so it can be turned off.
- Webmasters who don't want their 404 error pages to be overridden may have to add padding to their 404 error pages. However, since IE and Google Chrome are already overriding 404 error pages using a similar size test, webmasters already need to do this.
- We want to provide a way for the user to see the original 404 error page, but that's not in this patch.
Is something that will need to get fixed.... if you type the wrong URL it is probably going to redirect you someplace you don't want before you get a chance to fix the URL.