* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:50:32PM -0500, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:27:39PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > package: iceweasel > > > > version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 > > > > severity: normal > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I have tried the new iceweasel package with an empty ~/.mozilla > > > > directory. > > > > > > > > The browser has its default start homepage set to an empty page, not to > > > > http://www.debian.org as changelog.Debian claims. This is - at least- > > > > better than any mozilla related page but still not satisfying IMHO. Why > > > > not set it to 'about:' or finally the Debian homepage? > > > > > > I agree the default home page should be about:, like on iceape (which > > > also means it would be nice to add the same links that have been added > > > to the iceape about: page, too) > > > > Hmmm, where did I go wrong? How did you do it for iceape? > > Well, iceape had the old style about: page, so I stole the one from > firefox because it's prettier, modified it a bit, and added 2 more > lines: > # Read the Debian README file for this package. > # See the Debian bug reports for this package. > > I also needed to patch caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp to allow > links from about: to file:/// urls. See bz#365526.
Is there a security reason why they disallowed this? > The last bit was to set the homepage to about:. I also had to add a > component that modifies the homepage if it happened to be the old > mozilla one (a file that doesn't exist anymore), but that's specific. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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