1597611 - Help pages should be available offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253334

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, enhancement)

Description

[Pander]

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

Comment 1

[Pander]

See also bug 1597625

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

Do you volunteer to maintain that local help?

Comment 3

[Andre Klapper]

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

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is effectively bug 253334