Closed Bug 1597611 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 months ago

Help pages should be available offline

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253334

People

(Reporter: pander, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

Searched for help on keyboard shortcuts.

Actual results:

The page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts with help opened in a web browser.

Expected results:

Help should not open an online page, but should open a local file that was shipped with Tunderbird, e.g. located in /usr/share/doc/thunderbird such as /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/en_US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts.html or /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/en_UK/kb/keyboard-shortcuts.html or /usr/share/doc/thunderbird/kb/nl/keyboard-shortcuts.html

The advantages of this are:

  • the help information is also available when working offline
  • no internet activity occurs, which is possibly a security risk or might reveal unwanted online activity
  • version specific help can be offered, currently help offered is identical independent of the version of Thunderbird being used

See also bug 1597625

Do you volunteer to maintain that local help?

Type: defect → enhancement

Sorry, please ignore my previous comment. Content-wise, if this was implemented, there should be some sync in place.

See Also: → 1597625
Severity: normal → S3

This is effectively bug 253334

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 253334
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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