55660 - about:welcome

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 68086

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I need a "homepage" which ships with the browser. Implement <about:welcome>,
which redirects to a certain chrome: URL, possibly configurable (hidden, per
pref or .properties).

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Fixed in my N6.0 tree.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Getting schizophrenic: Moving all bugs for Beonex <http://www.beonex.com> to my
second Bugzilla identity <[e-mail]>.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Will attach patch to bug 55659.

Comment 4

[Gagan]

See my comments in bug 55659. The same apply for this case too. 

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Nobody reviewd so far :-(, so I have to move to Mozilla 0.9. Please review!

Comment 6

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Thanks to Gagan's generic about redirector, it's relatively easy now for Beonex
to add that URL. Thus, my original reasons for opening this disappeared.

Still, I have to add the file to the build, so I have to touch at least 4 files.

Also, it is thinkable that a welcome page in Mozilla is useful, too. In fact,
[e-mail] voted for this bug. zero, if you think that fixing this bug would
be a plus for Mozilla, please say so. this may convince Gagan and the xpfe owner
that this is a valueable addition to Mozilla.

Comment 8

[Michael Gabriel]

bug 68086 is fixed, can this be done easily now ?

Comment 9

[Gábor Stefanik]

7 years from the initial filing of this bug, for Mozilla's sake, could this be done? We have a patch at hand (though it might need to be unbitrotted to work), only a review and checkin is needed!

Comment 10

[benc]

I don't like the idea of continuing to add stuff to about: unless it is really clear-cut what the benefit is. about: is not x-about: we shouldn't be adding stuff for no good reason.

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

BenB: Do you still need this ?

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Nope.

FWIW, the idea here was to remove pingback of the browser to the browser vendor (me in that case back then), for privacy for the user.