320141 - Add about:info feature (to help troubleshooting)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 367596

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

We need an "about:info" URL. The output should look similar to this http://mozilla.doslash.org/infolister/example-output.html

This information should be included:
Installed extensions (enabled and disabled) and their version.
Installed plugins (enabled and disabled).
Installed themes (enabled and disabled).
User agent string.

Helpful for troubleshooting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Type about:extensions in location bar
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The list I described above should appear.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Valid request, I think this would be useful, though I'm not sure an "about:" page is the best way to go.

Comment 2

[RenegadeX]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Valid request, I think this would be useful, though I'm not sure an "about:"
> page is the best way to go.

I think:
1) this is a great suggestion for a feature enhancement.
2) 'about:info' is good; 'about:config' is already taken, 'info' is what this is displaying, after all!
3) I would further like to suggest adding, somewhere near the top - text stating the full path of the current user Profile.

That way, if someone needs support, I can tell them exactly what directories to navigate through.
ex: "Ok, Joe, go to 'c:\documents and settings\JoeAverage\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\JoeA\extensions\' and look for a folder named xyz"

Comment 3

[Dave Trevin]

I think about:support would be a better keyword for it.  about:info is pretty vague- anything could be info- the weather in Georgia, the year, the president of Aruba.

Comment 4

[RenegadeX]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think about:support would be a better keyword for it.  about:info is pretty
> vague- anything could be info- the weather in Georgia, the year, the president
> of Aruba.

LoL - true. But 'Support' doesn't describe what the page is about either.
So either it could be made into a true support page (with a clickable link to the current Profile directory <- (which I know doesn't excite many of the devs)) OR a more 'true' description of what it does:
'about:installed' :-D