150960 - "about:" does not display about page

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[benc]

STEPS:

while running:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/testing/coretests.html

click on about:

No result. Probably like the other URL handlers, not implemented.

Comment 1

[Winnie Lam]

note that "about:blank" and "about:plugins" work though.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Maybe we're just missing some HTML resource? But we probably don't want to show
that. Perhaps hack it to show the About window?

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

about:cache and about:mozilla also work.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

about:config barfs, because it tries to show a XUL outliner.

We (i.e. mozilla) really need to get a grip on all the ways there are of showing
XUL in the content area, and eliminate them.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

if/when this is fixed, could about: show both the build id, as well as the gecko
version?

Comment 6

[benc]

WORKAROUND:
use "Navigator | About Navigator"

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

sounds reasonable.

Comment 8

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Re: Comment #2 From Simon Fraser 2002-07-23 23:11

> Perhaps hack it to show the About window?

That would be my suggestion, as long as it's possible.

Re: Comment #4 From Simon Fraser 2002-07-23 23:16

> about:config barfs, because it tries to show a XUL outliner.
> 
> We (i.e. mozilla) really need to get a grip on all the ways there are of
> showing XUL in the content area, and eliminate them.

How difficult would it be to create a NSOutliner(?) that does the same for
about:config? about:config is a nice tool...

Re: Comment #6 From [e-mail] 2002-11-06 11:02

> WORKAROUND:
> use "Navigator | About Navigator"

Gecko version and build id aren't always the same, so maybe we should have
"2002111213 (Gecko: 20021112)" in that about window instead. I would prefer the
id's to have dashes (like 2002-11-12-13), btw.

Comment 9

[Chris Casciano]

I've filed bug 209070 (without knowing this existed) on about:config "barfing".

It would see to me that morphing this into a tracking bug and filing distinct
bugs on any other about:strings that still don't work properly might help clear
what work is really needed here. Either that or chaging this bug's summary to
reflect what work is left.

Comment 10

[benc]

file a separate tracking bug.

I'm the reporter, I have to get bugmail on this bug for life. I test this, so I
only care about this part working.

Comment 11

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

don't care.