37693 - debugging and about: options not implemented !

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Karthik Krishnamoorthy]

about: without any arguments will bring up information about your Netscape
software.
about:global gives you information about the Netscape global history cache (a
list of URLs the browser has accessed). You can find more information about this
in tech note http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/960627-14.html.
about:cache gives you information about contents of the Netscape disk cache.
You can find more information about this in tech note                           
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/960513-45.html.
about:memory-cache shows you what files the browser is currently caching in
memory for faster access.
about:image-cache provides information about the images currently loaded in
the cache.
about:document provides information about the currently-loaded document.
about:plugins provides information about the plugins you currently have
installed.
about:license diplays the text of your Netscape software license agreement.
about:logo will display the Netscape logo.
about:mozilla displays a page from the Book of Mozilla.

You can put the name of some of the developers after about: to see their home 
page:
marca, ari, atotic, blythe, chouck, dmose, dp, ebina, hagan, jeff, jg, jsw, jwz, 
karlton,kipp, mlm, montulli, mtoy, paquin, robm, sharoni, terry, timm.
There are other special debugging URLs:
javascript: 
livescript: 
mocha: 

CTRL+ALT+F - http://home.netscape.com/fishcam/fishcam.html
CTRL+ALT+S - toggle statusbar on/off
CTRL+ALT+T - active URLs

Comment 1

[leger]

Folsk would really like these debugging option implemented.  This was brought up 
at Seamonkey Leads.  Can we get in after M16?

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2-]

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sorry for the spam.  New QA Contact for Browser General.  Thanks for your help
Joseph (good luck with the new job) and welcome aboard Doron Rosenberg

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

moving over to the Derivatives Product and Netscape component (the staging 
ground for moving bugs out of bugzilla)

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

perhaps we can pull the Netscape specific items out of this list and move it 
back into the public?  I know some of these are going to be implimented and most 
of them would be important to mozilla as well as Netscape.  THoughts?

Comment 6

[leger]

These debugging request would help all.  Putting on nsbeta3 and helpwanted
keyword, it would be great for anyone (mozilla or netscape) to get this happening.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating product, component and owner and moving into the public view

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

adding sford since I think he was involved in implimenting a couple about:'s

Comment 9

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

about:mozilla works, adding leaf to cc list. Leaf - since you did the
about:mozilla, feel like doing this?

the fishcam could be in mozilla too, the about:logo and about:licence should be
made mozilla specific for the mozilla builds.

Comment 10

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

actually, i didn't do any about: work; but i'll poke at this in my ``free time''

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

sford, you want this one?

Comment 12

[Sammy Ford]

I will take a look at it. I need to speak with people in the 
history/cache/imglib area to find out about what would be needed for those. I 
have about:plugins and another one implemented.

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

assigning to sford. thanks.

Comment 14

[Sammy Ford]

new address

Comment 15

[Michael La Guardia]

Marking nsbeta3- per pdt review.

Comment 16

[Jesse Ruderman]

ctrl+alt+letter stuff:
bug 18768 ctrl+alt+s (toggle status bar) 
bug 29501 ctrl+alt+f (fishcam)
bug 37594 ctrl+alt+t (networking debug thing)

there are also bugs for most of the about: options listed here that still don't 
work.

Comment 17

[Chris Hiner]

Here's what works for me now with a 20010630 linux cvs build:
about:  brings up the Mozilla info screen
about:cache  works
about:memory-cache  doesn't work, but the info is available in about:cache
about:image-cache  doesn't work, see bug 60305
about:document  doesn't work, but it's reachable as view page info
about:plugins  works
about:license  doesn't work, see bug 55659
about:logo  doesn't work, see bug 52104
about:mozilla  works
javascript:  works
livescript:  doesn't work, but appears to have been the same as javascript:
mocha:   doesn't work, but appears to have been the same as javascript:


Should we close this one, and let the more specific bugs take care of the
remaining issues?

Comment 18

[Alan]

In response to the previous comment.  Quoted Verbatim from this page: 
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19970513-4.html

There are other special URLs:

    * javascript:
    * livescript:
    * mocha:

These all display a field where you can enter a line of JavaScript code which
will then be interpreted immediately. ("LiveScript" and "Mocha" were development
code-names for JavaScript.)

Comment 19

[Joel Nackman]

This bug dosen't state a problem.
Resolving to INVALID.

Comment 20

[timeless]

comment 0 was clearly a request that certain urls and actions work in mozilla.
most of them do. the bug is most certainly not invalid.

Comment 21

[Joel Nackman]

(In reply to comment #20)
> comment 0 was clearly a request that certain urls and actions work in mozilla.
> most of them do. the bug is most certainly not invalid.

I'm sorry, I misinterpreted that.  My fault.

Sorry,
Joel Nackman

Comment 22

[Andrew Schultz]

Among the remaining entries are about:global (functionality already exists as
Go->History), about:memory-cache and about:image-cache (already part of
about:cache) and about:document (functionality already exists as page info).

javascript: doesn't work.  Is that the only reason this bug is still open?

Comment 23

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

No comments since 2005.
No reply to comment #22

Resolving INCOMPLETE. If necessary, please file a new bug for whichever part of this still needs fixing.