164353 - [RFE] "about:home" and "about:current"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Henry James]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 MultiZilla/v1.1.21
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 MultiZilla/v1.1.21

We have "about:blank" to open a blank page, we should also have "about:home" to
open the home page (as specified in the pref settings) and "about:current" to
open (in a new windows/tab) or reload (in current window/tab) the current page.

I came to this because MultiZilla has a pref setting called "preferred location"
which I would like to set to "about:home" if that were available. I think this
should be no trouble to implement.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Type "about:home" in the URL bar.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Home page (as specified in pref settings) being load.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

This seems to be excessive.  You can get the features you want already as URLs
without a need to bloat our about services.  Try javascript:window.home() and
javascript:window.open(window.location.href).  Marking wontfix since we have
equal functionality and that our about: services should be informative, not
actionable.