1060834 - about:about should have a message about recursion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

The internal Firefox page about:about list (almost) all 'about:' pages available in Firefox. One of these pages is about:about, which is in fact the page the user is currently in. When the user clicks on the about:about page, nothing happened, because it reloads the same page again. I think it could be very helpful to do something different when the user clicks on this link, could be even a funny easter egg…

Steps to reproduce:
a. Type about:about in the browser location bar and click enter. 
b. Click on the about:about link. 

Current result:
Nothing happened, users may think they haven't clicked on the link and will try clicking it again.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

CCing gerv, since he usually deals with these reports, as far as I can see.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I think this is probably a case of "patches welcome" :-) Although I'm not the one who would have to approve them.

An idea: if you click about:about, it should reload the page exactly except with about:about replaced (in the same spot) with "about:recursion". Clicking that would take you back to the original page.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

No. It's an internal page, and this kind of edge case isn't something we should be adding code for.