On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/11/12 13:31, Robert Kaiser wrote:
>>
>> There's no about: pages that run in chrome mode at all (which most do),
>> i.e. no about:config, about:crashes, about:memory, etc. - we cannot run
>> chrome-privileged pages inside content-privileged apps due to security
>> reasons. This bites us in multiple case and we can't do a lot about it
>> (actually, there's work ongoing to re-implement "something like
>> about:crashes" with various tricks to not require chrome access, but I
>> consider this quite hackish).
>
> Can we solve it by creating a separate, trusted app which displays the data
> which would be displayed on those pages? Or would there be a problem with it
> getting access to it because it's not part of the same app?

It's software. Anything is possible. However it would take
re-implementing all of the about: pages using the B2G security model
rather than using chrome-privileged code.

I don't think adding the ability to set preferences has the right time
vs. added hackability vs. bricking-risk ratios.

/ Jonas
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