403906 - about:blanc should be a valid page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Weller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

Just because we can... about:blanc should be an alias to about:blank. I think it would make it just that awesome.

Maybe make it a shade of gray, too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type about:blanc in address bar.
2. Wonder for a few seconds.
3. Press enter.
Actual Results:  
"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."

Expected Results:  
about:blank

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

There are a million and one things that we could do "just because we can". I there any other real reason to do this?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

maybe a better thing could be if a user types about:something_not_valid then redirect him to about:blank...

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> maybe a better thing could be if a user types about:something_not_valid then
> redirect him to about:blank...

Doing that means that we can't add new "about:" pages in the future without breaking some url that someone relies on being a blank page.

Also this isn't really as easy as it first seems there is a bunch of special handling of the blank page based on its fixed url.

What is the need for multiple urls for a blank page?

Comment 4

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

What Mossop said!