about:buildconfig about:about

Posted August 25th, 2017, 8:17 am

I created a simple personal page as the tiles page does not work with TMP.

I have discovered these about:about items do not work. I copied them directly out of the about:about page source and still no luck. The others referencing a web page work fine.

Ideas?

Code: Select all: Row 2: <a href=http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php>Mozillazine</a> <a href=https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/> Mozilla Builds Nightly </a> <a href=https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/> Mozilla Archieve download page </a> <a href=https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/> Mozilla Releases << ftp site </a> <a href="about:buildconfig">about:buildconfig for version information</a> <a href="about:about">about:about</a> <a href="about:about">about:about all about: listing</a>

Posted August 25th, 2017, 10:41 am

It doesn't work in Firefox for security reasons.

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <a href="about:about">about:about</a> </body> </html>

Also,

I read that Firefox and Chrome are going to remove data URLs for security reasons.

Remove content initiated top frame navigations to data URLs
http://developers.google.com/web/update ... _data_urls
http://crbug.com/594215
http://crbug.com/684011
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331351

I liked using data URLs in bookmarklets. Now I have to show my results in the current tab instead of a new tab.

Code: Select all: - open("data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64," + btoa(data)); + document.body.innerHTML = "<div>" + data.replace(/\n/g, " ") + "</div>"; + document.body.style = "font-family: consolas; font-size: 20px; margin: 8px;";

I can't think of a workaround.

Posted August 25th, 2017, 12:33 pm

Thank you for trying. I had a different heading in the html than yours but had no effect. Nothing important -- just a convenience for me. I will read your additional links. Thx.

By the way -- anyone notice the "code: select all" buttons do not work. They jump to the start of the page.

Posted August 25th, 2017, 4:12 pm

Alice has a fix for that.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3028516

Posted August 25th, 2017, 5:06 pm

I can live without that. Easy enough to hilight and capture. But, thank you again.

Posted August 26th, 2017, 4:56 am

The "chrome://global/content/aboutAbout.xhtml" url is the same as the "about:about" url.

You could create your own .xhtml page with the chrome: protocol instead of your own .html page with the file: protocol.

I changed my home page to the "chrome://userChromeJS/content/example.xhtml" url.

I created the example.xhtml file in the "extensions\userChromeJS@mozdev.org\content" folder in the profile.

Code: Select all: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Example</title> </head> <body> <a href="about:about">about:about</a> </body> </html>

Posted August 26th, 2017, 5:35 am

Should your new xhtml post make the about:about and about:buildconfig clickable link or are they still blocked by Firefox/Mozilla?

Posted August 26th, 2017, 6:22 am

The about:about link in the example.xhtml page is clickable.

Note that...

1. chrome://userChromeJS/content/example.xhtml
2. file:///C:/example.xhtml

The 1st url succeeds, but the 2nd url fails because of the security restriction.

userChromeJS is an XUL extension with unpack property in install.rdf file.

Install Manifests - unpack property
http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add- ... sts#unpack

You can use any similar extension. I don't remember if TMP is unpacked or not.

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