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The linter defined in bug 1566315 has already detected over 200 prefs in all.js that could be duplicates:

```
dom.quotaManager.testing
dom.inputevent.datatransfer.enabled
dom.script_loader.binast_encoding.enabled
browser.display.document_color_use
browser.display.use_system_colors
browser.display.foreground_color
browser.display.background_color
browser.anchor_color
browser.active_color
browser.visited_color
browser.underline_anchors
browser.display.use_focus_colors
browser.display.focus_background_color
browser.display.focus_text_color
browser.display.focus_ring_width
browser.display.focus_ring_on_anything
browser.display.focus_ring_style
media.opus.enabled
media.wave.enabled
media.webm.enabled
media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_vpx_enabled
media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_h264_enabled
media.benchmark.vp9.threshold
media.benchmark.frames
media.benchmark.timeout
media.media-capabilities.enabled
media.media-capabilities.screen.enabled
media.encoder.webm.enabled
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed
media.av1.enabled
media.av1.use-dav1d
layers.geometry.opengl.enabled
layers.geometry.basic.enabled
layers.geometry.d3d11.enabled
apz.allow_double_tap_zooming
apz.allow_immediate_handoff
apz.allow_zooming
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.enabled
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.friction
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.inflexion
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.stop_threshold
apz.autoscroll.enabled
apz.axis_lock.mode
apz.axis_lock.lock_angle
apz.axis_lock.breakout_threshold
apz.axis_lock.breakout_angle
apz.axis_lock.direct_pan_angle
apz.content_response_timeout
apz.drag.enabled
apz.drag.initial.enabled
apz.drag.touch.enabled
apz.danger_zone_x
apz.danger_zone_y
apz.disable_for_scroll_linked_effects
apz.displayport_expiry_ms
apz.enlarge_displayport_when_clipped
apz.fixed-margin-override.enabled
apz.fixed-margin-override.bottom
apz.fixed-margin-override.top
apz.fling_accel_base_mult
apz.fling_accel_interval_ms
apz.fling_accel_min_velocity
apz.fling_accel_supplemental_mult
apz.fling_curve_threshold_inches_per_ms
apz.fling_friction
apz.fling_min_velocity_threshold
apz.fling_stop_on_tap_threshold
apz.fling_stopped_threshold
apz.frame_delay.enabled
apz.keyboard.passive-listeners
apz.max_tap_time
apz.max_velocity_inches_per_ms
apz.min_skate_speed
apz.minimap.enabled
apz.one_touch_pinch.enabled
apz.overscroll.enabled
apz.overscroll.min_pan_distance_ratio
apz.overscroll.stop_distance_threshold
apz.paint_skipping.enabled
apz.peek_messages.enabled
apz.pinch_lock.mode
apz.pinch_lock.span_breakout_threshold
apz.pinch_lock.span_lock_threshold
apz.popups.enabled
apz.relative-update.enabled
apz.printtree
apz.record_checkerboarding
apz.second_tap_tolerance
apz.test.logging_enabled
apz.touch_start_tolerance
apz.touch_move_tolerance
apz.velocity_bias
apz.velocity_relevance_time_ms
apz.x_skate_highmem_adjust
apz.y_skate_highmem_adjust
apz.x_skate_size_multiplier
apz.y_skate_size_multiplier
apz.x_stationary_size_multiplier
apz.y_stationary_size_multiplier
apz.zoom_animation_duration_ms
apz.scale_repaint_delay_ms
layout.scroll.root-frame-containers
layout.scrollbars.always-layerize-track
gfx.layerscope.enabled
gfx.layerscope.port
gfx.perf-warnings.enabled
gfx.color_management.mode
gfx.color_management.rendering_intent
gfx.color_management.enablev4
gfx.downloadable_fonts.otl_validation
gfx.downloadable_fonts.keep_color_bitmaps
gfx.downloadable_fonts.validate_variation_tables
gfx.font_rendering.coretext.enabled
gfx.font_rendering.ahem_antialias_none
gfx.canvas.remote
gfx.draw-color-bars
gfx.logging.painted-pixel-count.enabled
gfx.ycbcr.accurate-conversion
gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque
gfx.webrender.highlight-painted-layers
gfx.webrender.blob-images
gfx.webrender.blob.paint-flashing
gfx.webrender.dl.dump-parent
gfx.webrender.dl.dump-content
gfx.webrender.picture-caching
gfx.webrender.start-debug-server
accessibility.browsewithcaret
toolkit.scrollbox.verticalScrollDistance
toolkit.scrollbox.horizontalScrollDistance
browser.dom.window.dump.enabled
devtools.console.stdout.chrome
devtools.console.stdout.content
nglayout.debug.widget_update_flashing
print.font-variations-as-paths
privacy.trackingprotection.origin_telemetry.enabled
javascript.options.streams
security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
clipboard.autocopy
mousewheel.transaction.timeout
mousewheel.transaction.ignoremovedelay
mousewheel.acceleration.start
mousewheel.acceleration.factor
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.vertical.factor
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.horizontal.factor
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.pixels.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.pixels.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.pages.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.pages.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.other.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.other.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel
general.smoothScroll.pages
general.smoothScroll.durationToIntervalRatio
general.smoothScroll.currentVelocityWeighting
general.smoothScroll.stopDecelerationWeighting
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.continuousMotionMaxDeltaMS
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.motionBeginSpringConstant
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownMinDeltaMS
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownMinDeltaRatio
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownSpringConstant
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.regularSpringConstant
layout.css.report_errors
layout.css.scroll-snap.proximity-threshold
layout.css.scroll-snap.prediction-max-velocity
layout.css.scroll-snap.prediction-sensitivity
layout.css.scroll-behavior.enabled
layout.css.scroll-behavior.spring-constant
layout.css.scroll-behavior.damping-ratio
layout.frame_rate
layout.display-list.dump
layout.display-list.dump-content
layout.display-list.dump-parent
layout.display-list.retain
layout.display-list.retain.chrome
layout.display-list.rebuild-frame-limit
layout.animation.prerender.partial
layout.animation.prerender.viewport-ratio-limit-x
layout.animation.prerender.viewport-ratio-limit-y
layout.animation.prerender.absolute-limit-x
layout.animation.prerender.absolute-limit-y
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled
fission.autostart
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.enabled
image.animated.decode-on-demand.threshold-kb
image.animated.decode-on-demand.batch-size
image.animated.resume-from-last-displayed
image.cache.factor2.threshold-surfaces
image.cache.max-rasterized-svg-threshold-kb
image.decode-immediately.enabled
image.downscale-during-decode.enabled
image.infer-src-animation.threshold-ms
image.layout_network_priority
image.mem.discardable
image.mem.animated.use_heap
image.mem.debug-reporting
image.mem.shared
image.mem.volatile.min_threshold_kb
image.webp.enabled
gl.require-hardware
gl.multithreaded
gl.ignore-dx-interop2-blacklist
gl.use-tls-is-current
gl.allow-high-power
webgl.1.allow-core-profiles
webgl.force-enabled
webgl.disabled
webgl.disable-angle
webgl.disable-wgl
webgl.min_capability_mode
webgl.disable-extensions
webgl.msaa-force
webgl.prefer-16bpp
webgl.default-low-power
webgl.default-no-alpha
webgl.force-layers-readback
webgl.force-index-validation
webgl.lose-context-on-memory-pressure
webgl.can-lose-context-in-foreground
webgl.max-contexts
webgl.max-contexts-per-principal
webgl.max-warnings-per-context
webgl.enable-draft-extensions
webgl.enable-privileged-extensions
webgl.disable-fail-if-major-performance-caveat
webgl.disable-DOM-blit-uploads
webgl.allow-fb-invalidation
webgl.perf.max-warnings
webgl.perf.max-acceptable-fb-status-invals
webgl.perf.spew-frame-allocs
webgl.angle.try-d3d11
webgl.angle.force-d3d11
webgl.angle.force-warp
webgl.dxgl.enabled
webgl.dxgl.needs-finish
layers.bench.enabled
layers.gpu-process.max_restarts
layers.acceleration.draw-fps
layers.deaa.enabled
layers.dump
layers.dump-texture
layers.dump-decision
layers.dump-client-layers
layers.dump-host-layers
layers.draw-borders
layers.draw-tile-borders
layers.draw-bigimage-borders
layers.child-process-shutdown
layers.max-active
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.frame-rate
layers.single-tile.enabled
layers.low-precision-buffer
layers.progressive-paint
layers.tiles.retain-back-buffer
layers.tiles.edge-padding
layers.draw-mask-debug
gfx.content.always-paint
gfx.apitrace.enabled
widget.window-transforms.disabled
gfx.direct2d.destroy-dt-on-paintthread
gfx.direct3d11.use-double-buffering
layers.shared-buffer-provider.enabled
dom.vr.autoactivate.enabled
dom.vr.controller_trigger_threshold
dom.vr.external.notdetected.timeout
dom.vr.external.quit.timeout
dom.vr.navigation.timeout
dom.vr.oculus.present.timeout
dom.vr.oculus.invisible.enabled
dom.vr.controller.enumerate.interval
dom.vr.display.enumerate.interval
dom.vr.inactive.timeout
dom.vr.poseprediction.enabled
dom.vr.require-gesture
dom.vr.puppet.enabled
dom.vr.display.rafMaxDuration
network.traffic_analyzer.enabled
dom.meta-viewport.enabled
layers.mlgpu.enable-on-windows7
layers.omtp.release-capture-on-main-thread
layers.omtp.dump-capture
fission.preserve_browsing_contexts
```
We want to avoid duplicate prefs between StaticPrefList.yaml and all.js. If there is any case where a pref must be defined in both files, these could be added to the `ignore_prefs` list in lintpref.
The linter in bug 1566315 has already detected over 200 prefs in all.js that could be duplicates:

```
dom.quotaManager.testing
dom.inputevent.datatransfer.enabled
dom.script_loader.binast_encoding.enabled
browser.display.document_color_use
browser.display.use_system_colors
browser.display.foreground_color
browser.display.background_color
browser.anchor_color
browser.active_color
browser.visited_color
browser.underline_anchors
browser.display.use_focus_colors
browser.display.focus_background_color
browser.display.focus_text_color
browser.display.focus_ring_width
browser.display.focus_ring_on_anything
browser.display.focus_ring_style
media.opus.enabled
media.wave.enabled
media.webm.enabled
media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_vpx_enabled
media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_h264_enabled
media.benchmark.vp9.threshold
media.benchmark.frames
media.benchmark.timeout
media.media-capabilities.enabled
media.media-capabilities.screen.enabled
media.encoder.webm.enabled
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed
media.av1.enabled
media.av1.use-dav1d
layers.geometry.opengl.enabled
layers.geometry.basic.enabled
layers.geometry.d3d11.enabled
apz.allow_double_tap_zooming
apz.allow_immediate_handoff
apz.allow_zooming
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.enabled
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.friction
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.inflexion
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.stop_threshold
apz.autoscroll.enabled
apz.axis_lock.mode
apz.axis_lock.lock_angle
apz.axis_lock.breakout_threshold
apz.axis_lock.breakout_angle
apz.axis_lock.direct_pan_angle
apz.content_response_timeout
apz.drag.enabled
apz.drag.initial.enabled
apz.drag.touch.enabled
apz.danger_zone_x
apz.danger_zone_y
apz.disable_for_scroll_linked_effects
apz.displayport_expiry_ms
apz.enlarge_displayport_when_clipped
apz.fixed-margin-override.enabled
apz.fixed-margin-override.bottom
apz.fixed-margin-override.top
apz.fling_accel_base_mult
apz.fling_accel_interval_ms
apz.fling_accel_min_velocity
apz.fling_accel_supplemental_mult
apz.fling_curve_threshold_inches_per_ms
apz.fling_friction
apz.fling_min_velocity_threshold
apz.fling_stop_on_tap_threshold
apz.fling_stopped_threshold
apz.frame_delay.enabled
apz.keyboard.passive-listeners
apz.max_tap_time
apz.max_velocity_inches_per_ms
apz.min_skate_speed
apz.minimap.enabled
apz.one_touch_pinch.enabled
apz.overscroll.enabled
apz.overscroll.min_pan_distance_ratio
apz.overscroll.stop_distance_threshold
apz.paint_skipping.enabled
apz.peek_messages.enabled
apz.pinch_lock.mode
apz.pinch_lock.span_breakout_threshold
apz.pinch_lock.span_lock_threshold
apz.popups.enabled
apz.relative-update.enabled
apz.printtree
apz.record_checkerboarding
apz.second_tap_tolerance
apz.test.logging_enabled
apz.touch_start_tolerance
apz.touch_move_tolerance
apz.velocity_bias
apz.velocity_relevance_time_ms
apz.x_skate_highmem_adjust
apz.y_skate_highmem_adjust
apz.x_skate_size_multiplier
apz.y_skate_size_multiplier
apz.x_stationary_size_multiplier
apz.y_stationary_size_multiplier
apz.zoom_animation_duration_ms
apz.scale_repaint_delay_ms
layout.scroll.root-frame-containers
layout.scrollbars.always-layerize-track
gfx.layerscope.enabled
gfx.layerscope.port
gfx.perf-warnings.enabled
gfx.color_management.mode
gfx.color_management.rendering_intent
gfx.color_management.enablev4
gfx.downloadable_fonts.otl_validation
gfx.downloadable_fonts.keep_color_bitmaps
gfx.downloadable_fonts.validate_variation_tables
gfx.font_rendering.coretext.enabled
gfx.font_rendering.ahem_antialias_none
gfx.canvas.remote
gfx.draw-color-bars
gfx.logging.painted-pixel-count.enabled
gfx.ycbcr.accurate-conversion
gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque
gfx.webrender.highlight-painted-layers
gfx.webrender.blob-images
gfx.webrender.blob.paint-flashing
gfx.webrender.dl.dump-parent
gfx.webrender.dl.dump-content
gfx.webrender.picture-caching
gfx.webrender.start-debug-server
accessibility.browsewithcaret
toolkit.scrollbox.verticalScrollDistance
toolkit.scrollbox.horizontalScrollDistance
browser.dom.window.dump.enabled
devtools.console.stdout.chrome
devtools.console.stdout.content
nglayout.debug.widget_update_flashing
print.font-variations-as-paths
privacy.trackingprotection.origin_telemetry.enabled
javascript.options.streams
security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
clipboard.autocopy
mousewheel.transaction.timeout
mousewheel.transaction.ignoremovedelay
mousewheel.acceleration.start
mousewheel.acceleration.factor
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.vertical.factor
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.horizontal.factor
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.pixels.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.pixels.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.pages.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.pages.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.other.durationMinMS
general.smoothScroll.other.durationMaxMS
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel
general.smoothScroll.pages
general.smoothScroll.durationToIntervalRatio
general.smoothScroll.currentVelocityWeighting
general.smoothScroll.stopDecelerationWeighting
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.continuousMotionMaxDeltaMS
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.motionBeginSpringConstant
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownMinDeltaMS
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownMinDeltaRatio
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownSpringConstant
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.regularSpringConstant
layout.css.report_errors
layout.css.scroll-snap.proximity-threshold
layout.css.scroll-snap.prediction-max-velocity
layout.css.scroll-snap.prediction-sensitivity
layout.css.scroll-behavior.enabled
layout.css.scroll-behavior.spring-constant
layout.css.scroll-behavior.damping-ratio
layout.frame_rate
layout.display-list.dump
layout.display-list.dump-content
layout.display-list.dump-parent
layout.display-list.retain
layout.display-list.retain.chrome
layout.display-list.rebuild-frame-limit
layout.animation.prerender.partial
layout.animation.prerender.viewport-ratio-limit-x
layout.animation.prerender.viewport-ratio-limit-y
layout.animation.prerender.absolute-limit-x
layout.animation.prerender.absolute-limit-y
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled
fission.autostart
mousewheel.system_scroll_override_on_root_content.enabled
image.animated.decode-on-demand.threshold-kb
image.animated.decode-on-demand.batch-size
image.animated.resume-from-last-displayed
image.cache.factor2.threshold-surfaces
image.cache.max-rasterized-svg-threshold-kb
image.decode-immediately.enabled
image.downscale-during-decode.enabled
image.infer-src-animation.threshold-ms
image.layout_network_priority
image.mem.discardable
image.mem.animated.use_heap
image.mem.debug-reporting
image.mem.shared
image.mem.volatile.min_threshold_kb
image.webp.enabled
gl.require-hardware
gl.multithreaded
gl.ignore-dx-interop2-blacklist
gl.use-tls-is-current
gl.allow-high-power
webgl.1.allow-core-profiles
webgl.force-enabled
webgl.disabled
webgl.disable-angle
webgl.disable-wgl
webgl.min_capability_mode
webgl.disable-extensions
webgl.msaa-force
webgl.prefer-16bpp
webgl.default-low-power
webgl.default-no-alpha
webgl.force-layers-readback
webgl.force-index-validation
webgl.lose-context-on-memory-pressure
webgl.can-lose-context-in-foreground
webgl.max-contexts
webgl.max-contexts-per-principal
webgl.max-warnings-per-context
webgl.enable-draft-extensions
webgl.enable-privileged-extensions
webgl.disable-fail-if-major-performance-caveat
webgl.disable-DOM-blit-uploads
webgl.allow-fb-invalidation
webgl.perf.max-warnings
webgl.perf.max-acceptable-fb-status-invals
webgl.perf.spew-frame-allocs
webgl.angle.try-d3d11
webgl.angle.force-d3d11
webgl.angle.force-warp
webgl.dxgl.enabled
webgl.dxgl.needs-finish
layers.bench.enabled
layers.gpu-process.max_restarts
layers.acceleration.draw-fps
layers.deaa.enabled
layers.dump
layers.dump-texture
layers.dump-decision
layers.dump-client-layers
layers.dump-host-layers
layers.draw-borders
layers.draw-tile-borders
layers.draw-bigimage-borders
layers.child-process-shutdown
layers.max-active
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.frame-rate
layers.single-tile.enabled
layers.low-precision-buffer
layers.progressive-paint
layers.tiles.retain-back-buffer
layers.tiles.edge-padding
layers.draw-mask-debug
gfx.content.always-paint
gfx.apitrace.enabled
widget.window-transforms.disabled
gfx.direct2d.destroy-dt-on-paintthread
gfx.direct3d11.use-double-buffering
layers.shared-buffer-provider.enabled
dom.vr.autoactivate.enabled
dom.vr.controller_trigger_threshold
dom.vr.external.notdetected.timeout
dom.vr.external.quit.timeout
dom.vr.navigation.timeout
dom.vr.oculus.present.timeout
dom.vr.oculus.invisible.enabled
dom.vr.controller.enumerate.interval
dom.vr.display.enumerate.interval
dom.vr.inactive.timeout
dom.vr.poseprediction.enabled
dom.vr.require-gesture
dom.vr.puppet.enabled
dom.vr.display.rafMaxDuration
network.traffic_analyzer.enabled
dom.meta-viewport.enabled
layers.mlgpu.enable-on-windows7
layers.omtp.release-capture-on-main-thread
layers.omtp.dump-capture
fission.preserve_browsing_contexts
```
We want to avoid duplicate prefs between StaticPrefList.yaml and all.js. If there is any case where a pref must be defined in both files, these could be added to the `ignore_prefs` list in lintpref.

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