Closed Bug 610905 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

about: URIs not recognized in context menus

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: eviatarbach, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101109 Firefox/4.0b8pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101109 Firefox/4.0b8pre about: URIs, such as about:addons and about:config, are not given the options in the context menu as URLs. They should also have Open Link, Open Link in New Tab, and Open Link in New Window when right-clicked, like other addresses. Reproducible: Always
It is intentionally not possible to link to "about:" addresses from normal web pages (except "about:blank"), for security reasons. See bug 73149.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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