1954891 - Fenix Release does not have `IS_SECURE_CHROME_UI` (which is required to use `about:config`, `about:crashes` and other important pages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android :: Browser Engine, defect)

Description

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Steps to reproduce:

• Launch Google Store.
• Search for "Firefox".
• Install first result ("Firefox for Android").
• Tap the address bar.
• Input about:config and continue.
• Input about:crashes and continue.

Actual results:

Invalid Address

The provided address is not in a recognized format. Please check the location bar for mistakes and try again.

Expected results:

• about:config should use chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
• about:crashes should usechrome://global/content/crashes.html

Comment 1

[2002luvabbaluvu]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949695#c26

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/33ad27ed29cd

allows Fenix to use about:config and about:crashes, but just for builds which have nsIAboutModule::IS_SECURE_CHROME_UI}.
Was not sure if this counts as "Defect Report" (since all releases except mobile have this) or "Request for Enhancement" (since do not know of previous versions of mobile Firefox which have this).

Comment 2

[2002luvabbaluvu]

It is not a workaround to "Just use those chrome:// versions" (as some have said to do),
since:

• mobile Firefox strips chrome:// when you paste into the address bar,
• does not allow to bookmark those.

Comment 3

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

We have a custom ui for about:crashes as we have both android client crashes as well as Gecko crashes that we want to display.

As for about:config, we have that disabled for release builds, if you want to use it I recommend using beta or nightly.