Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Asa Dotzler schrieb:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> Well, in that case (maybe this remark is off-topic for _this_ thread but
>> I'm not even sure) let's give some more love to the troubleshooting page
>> too, don't you think? Its clipboard output is _ugly_.
>
> Tony, absolutely! We can make this page better. It's clipboard output is
> awful and makes a mess in bug reports. We can and should fix that. We
> also need to add channel information and maybe more.

Are there bugs reported for those improvements? After all, talk is nice, 
bug reports are nicer, patches are awesome! :)

>> The MR-Tech Toolkit extension (which I haven't yet re-enabled because of
>> all the difficulties it has had keeping up with the new add-ons manager)
>> used to produce a bee-yoo-tiful summary of data about the browser and
>> about installed extensions, all in HTML and that could be written to a
>> file (for attachment to a bug, for instance). Couldn't we do something
>> in that spirit? It would be incomparably more readable than what
>> about:support dumps to the clipboard at the moment.
>
> I'm with you 100% We should definitely improve this. I was also wonering
> if there was some way to make it accessible to a couple of privileged
> domains, like Bugzilla and Mozilla Support so that the page could just
> ask for that data. There's already someone working on output as JSON,
> but it would be interesting to see if we could make the process of
> adding the Troubleshooting info to a bug report or a Support request
> even easier than via the clipboard.

We surely should have some ways for websites to request some data from 
the user in a transparent-to-him way (like Geolocation perhaps?) as that 
also helps us to reduce things we now send by default and make users 
more fingerprintable.

Asa, can we bump priority for such a mechanism? Do we have a feature 
page, and/or bug for that?

Robert Kaiser

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