Hi, surf cannot access the about: pages since it prepends with "http://" each uri not containing the "://" string. The attached patch also checks for the "about:" prefix.
The patch applies against HEAD (743fa9f3d19af8166b8466f35c464c402e31f554). Regards, Claudio
diff --git a/surf.c b/surf.c index 108485b..23c49bd 100644 --- a/surf.c +++ b/surf.c @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ loaduri(Client *c, const Arg *arg) u = g_strdup_printf("file://%s", rp); free(rp); } else { - u = g_strrstr(uri, "://") ? g_strdup(uri) + u = g_strrstr(uri, "://") || g_str_has_prefix(uri, "about:") ? g_strdup(uri) : g_strdup_printf("http://%s", uri); }