Firefox implemented about:support in Bug 367596. Bug 518607 aims at moving the basic functionality to Toolkit. This bug is for tracking/implementing the Thunderbird side, e.g. string additions (en-US l10n). Bug 545110 is the Seamonkey bug for this feature Two steps: 1. port about:support to Thunderbird 2. and add smtp, imap and pop settings suitably obscured

FYI We (SeaMonkey) would want #2 as well.

(In reply to comment #0) > Two steps: > 1. port about:support to Thunderbird > 2. and add smtp, imap and pop settings suitably obscured Isn't the rule one issue per bug ?

One issue can have many aspects and steps, though. In this case, step 1 (which is actually "add a menuitem and the code to have it open about:support in a tab" rather than "port") is premature, since there's nothing in toolkit to open yet, but step 2 really should be figured out *now*, in detail, before we move Firefox's code to toolkit and only then realize that we're going to want to show prefs that they don't want to show, or that we're going to want to blacklist regexes that will blacklist things they do want to show, and thus discover too late that we didn't want it in toolkit at all, we wanted to instead have our own copy.

But since we didn't do it before I moved Firefox's code, one of these days I'll file and fix a bug that will let us provide a file that just defines a PREFS_APP_WHITELIST and PREFS_APP_BLACKLIST which will be merged with whatever parts of the PREFS_WHITELIST and PREFS_BLACKLIST in http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/aboutSupport.js#52 we all agree are what every app wants.

hope this isn't too late: (In reply to comment #4) > One issue can have many aspects and steps, though. > > In this case, step 1 (which is actually "add a menuitem and the code to have it > open about:support in a tab" rather than "port") is premature, since there's > nothing in toolkit to open yet, but step 2 really should be figured out *now*, > in detail, before we move Firefox's code to toolkit and only then realize that > we're going to want to show prefs that they don't want to show, or that we're > going to want to blacklist regexes that will blacklist things they do want to > show, and thus discover too late that we didn't want it in toolkit at all, we > wanted to instead have our own copy. whitelist: 1. any prefs that about:support does for Firefox - About:support for Firefox only shows modified preferences; we want only modified preferences in Thunderbird too obscure/blank out/obfuscate: 1. any pref with a userid of the form user@mailserver.com (would be nice if about:support shows these prefs but when they are copied to the clipboard they are obscured e.g. mail.smtpserver.smtpx.username mail.identity.idx.*_folder mail.last_msg_movecopy_target_uri blacklist: don't think we need to blacklist anything

sid0 has agreed to take a run at porting about:support as an add-on. Thanks sid

I'm adding a link to the about:support add-on page on Mozilla Labs to the URL of this bug report for reference. There is also a direct link to AMO for it, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/239387/