Closed Bug 1629375 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Remove the about:devtools page

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1609100

People

(Reporter: hazard-waltzer02, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12739.111.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.162 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Go to about:devtools

Actual results:

It says "You've successfully enabled Developer Tools!". However, the DevTools are enabled by default instead of being disabled by default. This text on the page makes me think of the latter.

Expected results:

The page is complete nonsense. It should just be removed.

I disagree. The page provides links to documentation how to use developer tools.
Why do you propose removing the page, instead of removing that one sentence?

Flags: needinfo?(Nicohumor)

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)

I disagree. The page provides links to documentation how to use developer tools.
Why do you propose removing the page, instead of removing that one sentence?

Because the about:devtools page is not linked to in Firefox anywhere except about:about.

If you would really like to keep that page, then it should redirect to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/, as that page provices the same text as the about:devtools page near the middle of it. The DevEdition page is even linked to from the about:devtools page. SO why not just redirect if not remove entirely?

Flags: needinfo?(Nicohumor)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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