https://tb-manual.torproject.org should redirect to the manual for the platform the user is actually on

I just tested the patch for #20614 (moved) on my Linux box and get redirected to https://tb-manual.torproject.org/windows/en-US/. I should, however, get redirected to https://tb-manual.torproject.org/linux/en-US/

added component::community/tor browser manual owner::phoul priority::medium resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed type::defect labels

I saw a similar problem on OSX as well and assumed we did not yet have platform-specific variants of the manual. But we might as well fix the redirects now.

Trac:
Cc: N/A to mcs

Yes, as far as I know, the manual is currently identical for all platforms. I see two possible alternative solutions:

1. Add a patch to torbutton to send the user to the appropriate link for a given platform: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/${platform}/en-US. (I don't think tb-manual.torproject.org should be responsible for detecting the Tor Browser platform.)
2. Change the manual so there is a single version for all platforms on each locale: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/en-US

Both of these options are easy to implement. The disadvantage I see for (1) is complexity. Do we really need a separate manual for each platform? And if we do have a separate manual for each platform, are we going to need separate screenshot images for each platform?

I guess the main difference in usage Tor Browser platforms has to do with installation and startup. Right now, there isn't such a page, but if there were, it could (1) be different for each platform or (2) simply have a section for each platform.

Trac:
Cc: mcs to mcs, arthuredelstein

I think option 2 makes more sense at this time. If we eventually require different versions on different platforms, we can revisit patching torbutton.

Trac:
Status: new to accepted

We went with option 2: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser/user-manual.git/commit/?id=9f7e9af7673c9a685b23d78670269be3041356b9

And here's the torbutton patch (from #21243 (moved)) that points to URLs such as https://tb-manual.torproject.org/es-ES https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/commit/?id=4e9c7c8ba121e0ec39d65deefd5cea3657dcc27d

Trac:
Resolution: N/A to fixed
Status: accepted to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #27111 (moved)

moved to tpo/web/manual-trac#20739 (closed)