RFE to display a clickable list of all the supported about:*

Neat idea.

I'd like to do it. :)

mass move, v2. qa to me.

See also bug 87513, error page for about:foo (where foo isn't recognized).

does this belong in the help component?

I can do this, I will make one based on all that is currently in the tree.

Having about:about would certainly make my life easier, I would not need to write a test document for about by hand.

Faking it using Mozilla keywords! http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html Create a bookmark as normal to whatever it is you want Then go to bookmark properties set the keyword to about:about Now if you type about:about in the location bar mozilla will automagically follow your link.

I also think this should be included under the Help menu, since it should be pretty visible in order to be effective.

-> XP apps. Someone needs to create content in a patch and checkin. Not much networking to be done here...

Just stumbled in bug 140034: about:buildconfig These days, there are so many about:* that it is virtually impossible to discover/stumble on all of them, let alone remember them. It is getting to the point that this bug isn't just an 'enhancement' anymore. Not being able to discover the about:* options means that not being able to use them.

Taking. I just hacked up a quick implementation of this. I'll need to do some cleaning up before I post an actual patch, but should be out the door relatively soon.

Okay, I just stumbled across a minor roadblock. http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp#1230 prevents me from linking to most about: URLs. What I have will display all abouts and give you links, but only a couple (about:, about:blank, about:mozilla) are actually clickable....

This seems to play nicely now.

Comment on attachment 121598 [details] [diff] [review] First crack at this Oh, btw: I don't really care much to do work beyond where I have it other than review comment updates. If someone wants to make this localizable, or figure out a way to tell if a link is unusable as listed (such as about:cache-entry which requires ?querystring params), be my guest. I just want to get a review, super-review, and once I do, I'll get a security review and land this, and any other work can be done at that point. Unless someone wants to modify the patch. >Index: xpfe/global/resources/content/aboutAbout.html >=================================================================== >+ var referrer; >+ try { >+ referrer = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/standard-url;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIURI); >+ referrer.spec = "chrome://global/content/aboutAbout.html"; >+ } catch (e) { >+ referrer = { spec: "chrome://global/content/aboutAbout.html" }; >+ } The above code snippet was inadvertently left in and should be removed, btw.

Also includes a minor change to caps to allow chrome (resource) uris to link to about: uris.

Comment on attachment 128064 [details] [diff] [review] Patch r/sr=darin this looks good to me. you probably want to get someone more familiar with xpfe-land like jag to review this as well.

Let there be about:about.

re - { "about", DenyProtocol }, + { "about", ChromeProtocol }, and comment 13: Who made the security review? IIRC, we had exploits in about: and strong restrictions were the fix.

Darin looked at it, but here's the explanation. The exploits were because it was set to AllowProtocol meaning the world could link to about: URIs. This is completely safe because it still restricts the linking to only ChromeProtocol URIs (only chrome: or resource:) For reference, the about: exploit bug was bug 91714.

Yes, it seems to be safe. Thanks for the answer. FYI, I was thinking about bug 134315 (and others, IIRC).