Consider adding links to supported browsers in the assistant page
Originally created by @geb on #11315 (Redmine)
Hi,
In the assistant pages when users are not running a supported browser they are printed a message like this one:
You seem to be using an unsupported browser.
You can download and verify the ISO image via:
Browser add-on
for Firefox 38+ or Tor Browser 5+A Firefox add-on to download and verify Tails automatically.
Copy and paste this link in Firefox or Tor Browser:
[Button] I’m already in Firefox 38.0.1+ or Tor Browser 5+.
I was wondering if adding links to downloads those browsers won’t worth it.
It would allow
- to provide more guidance to users to download those browsers and thus make the installation process easier,
- to ensure that they will download a good version of those browsers and not a old, supported, or worst, a bundled-with-crapwares one.
Affected pages:
- https://tails.boum.org/install/win/usb/index.en.html
- https://tails.boum.org/install/mac/usb/index.en.html
- https://tails.boum.org/install/linux/usb/index.en.html
- https://tails.boum.org/install/debian/usb/index.en.html
Links Proposals:
- For Firefox,
- we could propose the official Mozilla URL that handle the OS selection etc: https://getfirefox.com
- Maybe we can also add a “(help)” or “(instruction)” link to the documentation like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-windows for the linux/english version
- for TTB,
- we could propose a per-OS URL:
- there is no real user documentation to be added as a “(help)” link
Side notes:
- Maybe for Debian/Ubuntu we can propose users to apt-get install firefox / torbrowser-launcher or a apt:// link, or just Keep it simple and link the same pages as in general linux… i don’t know whats the better.
- Same for the many Firefox per-OS, per-language documentation URLs. There may be to many possibilities, I’am not sure adding and maintaining a very precise link to the good OS/Language worth it.
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