346573 - "firefox -help" message should mention safe mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 326909

(Firefox Graveyard :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060729 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060729 Firefox/1.5.0.6

This is the Firefox counterpart of Thunderbird bug 281394. I experienced it on Linux but I suspect it is cross-plaform. Please change the bug heading if therre are platforms/OSs where it does _not_ happen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. At the shell prompt, enter "firefox -help |more" (without the quotes)


Actual Results:  
Answer doesn't mention the -safe-mode option.

Expected Results:  
It should.

Additional info:
-safe-mode is a very useful option. Today I had to use it on both Firefox and Thunderbird to enable the "default" theme and avoid a solid startup crash. (But I had to search the Mozilla Knowledge Base using Konqueror in order to find out how to set it, and it was lucky for me that I already knew it existed.)

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

At this point, you should probably be checking to see if you can reproduce bugs in Firefox 2 before filing them.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 326909 ***

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> At this point, you should probably be checking to see if you can reproduce bugs
> in Firefox 2 before filing them.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 326909 ***
> 

Sorry, Firefox 2 is still somewhat too much "bleeding-edge unstable" for my taste. I can barely manage with Fx/Tb 1.5.0.x which have seen one "official" release.