630874 - about:home doesn't work with unpacked omnijar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

After unzipping the omnijar and removing it, clicking on the home button says:

The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

Going to about:about

about:home isn't there

Comment 1

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> After unzipping the omnijar and removing it, clicking on the home button says:
> 
This isn't so simple anymore since there's a manifest file that needs to be fixed up. If you look in components/components.manifest, every line that starts with binary-component is commented out. Try taking out the # in those lines. Browsercomps is particularly important.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Is this documented somewhere?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Theme_changes_in_Firefox_4

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Making this change worked for me.

Where is the right place to document it?

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

It's more complicated than this now, and I don't think we encourage this, so marking as WONTFIX.