367881 - Tooltip / Documentation for about:config items

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 269423

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Victor Engmark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

It would be nice to have more documentation when editing the settings in about:config. Two ideas come to mind:
- Use hover tooltips for each item (these could also be re-used in the Options pane).
- Add a "Documentation" or "More about this" menu item when right-clicking an option. This could link to http://kb.mozillazine.org/%s, where %s is the name of the option.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See bug 323502 and its dupes mentioned there. Not very likely that this will be fixed.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

benc: please do not set yourself as the QA contact of bugs that you have a passing interest in - if someone wrongly decides to open an old stale bug, we want the QA people who are watching the default contact for the component at that time to know about it, not to have someone who may well be long gone know about it only if they happen to still be reading bugmail.