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Original comment by
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@barret noticed aboutwelcome recipes are too long to be stored reliably in a pref e.g. [adding JSON object here](https://gist.github.com/punamdahiya/e3e158abda733e9b4f614bed4fc5e56f) as string value of `browser.aboutwelcome.screens` throws error in browser console and fails to get picked.

`Warning: attempting to write 13170 bytes to preference browser.aboutwelcome.screens. This is bad for general performance and memory usage. Such an amount of data should rather be written to an external file. `

about:welcome heavily relies on getting JSON recipe values in time during first startup before about:welcome opens, my concerns here 
do you think removing isEarlyStartup API in favor of setPref will be able to reliably provide JSON values on first and subsequent startups. Thanks
Revision 1 by
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@barret aboutwelcome recipes are too long to be stored reliably in a pref e.g. [adding JSON object here](https://gist.github.com/punamdahiya/e3e158abda733e9b4f614bed4fc5e56f) as string value of `browser.aboutwelcome.screens` throws error in browser console and fails to get picked.

`Warning: attempting to write 13170 bytes to preference browser.aboutwelcome.screens. This is bad for general performance and memory usage. Such an amount of data should rather be written to an external file. `

about:welcome heavily relies on getting JSON recipe values in time during first startup before about:welcome opens, my concerns here 
do you think removing isEarlyStartup API in favor of setPref will be able to reliably provide JSON values on first and subsequent startups. Thanks
Revision 2 by
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@barret aboutwelcome recipes are too long to be stored reliably in a pref e.g. [adding JSON object here](https://gist.github.com/punamdahiya/e3e158abda733e9b4f614bed4fc5e56f) as string value of `browser.aboutwelcome.screens` throws error in browser console and fails to get picked on opening `about:welcome`.

`Warning: attempting to write 13170 bytes to preference browser.aboutwelcome.screens. This is bad for general performance and memory usage. Such an amount of data should rather be written to an external file. `

about:welcome heavily relies on getting JSON recipe values in time during first startup before about:welcome opens, my concerns here 
do you think removing isEarlyStartup API in favor of setPref will be able to reliably provide JSON values on first and subsequent startups. Thanks

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