Bug#565807: iceweasel: -new-tab/-new-window not properly documented in man page / -help output

Dallas E. Legan aw585 at lafn.org
Mon Jan 18 22:35:34 UTC 2010


Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.5-1
Severity: minor

The -new-tab switch really should have a seperate entry
in the man page to help draw attention to it's existence.
Both -new-tab and -new-window switches should be listed
as part of the output for -help, to make people aware
of their existence, so they can use them.
(I seem to recall at one time they were part of -h output, but
I may be wrong about that.)
These have accessability/usability implications
for people who may want to minimize use of the
GUI (for example due to preferences of screen reader technology
for the visually impaired.), increasing interoperability
with other software.
As a use case someone passing a URL from a text mode browser
to Firefox when Iceweasels javascript or multimedia capabilities
might be desired for special web pages, but other factors
give a preference to the text mode browser as much as possible.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-4.2  generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.3-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.2-1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-2  /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        22.8-1     utilities that use the proc file s
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1               1.9.1.5-2  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  latex-xft-fonts       1.6.5-1            TrueType versions of some TeX font
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  mozplugger            1.13.0-1           Plugin allowing external viewers t
pn  ttf-mathematica4.1    <none>             (no description available)
pn  xfonts-mathml         <none>             (no description available)
pn  xprint                <none>             (no description available)
pn  xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome <none>             (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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