109832 - user.js not being read

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Recent regression: Build 2001111109: user.js is no longer being read.

- Edit prefs.js and make sure you have no "font.minimum-size.x-western" pref set.
- Edit user.js and add this line:
  user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 17);
- Run mozilla, browse to any page.  Notice fonts are the same size they were before.

Comment 1

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

I currently have a couple of prefs ("dom.disable_open_during_load" and
"javascript.options.strict") set via user.js. This WFM with the 2001110908 Mac
OSX build. I am pulling the tree now and will test against it as soon as I have
a build.

Comment 2

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

I just created a user.js file and added 4 user prefs to it. 1 that was already
in my prefs.js file and 3 that were not. Using a build pulled this morning, I
launched and exited Mozilla. All 4 preferences were contained in my prefs.js
file, indicating that user.js is indeed being read.

Please verify that you aren't just having a problem that is specific to the font
preference you noted.

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

Sorry for the delay -- I was having startup crashes and profile-stomping
problems with yesterday's build.  It's working fine now -- I think I had a
problem specific to the line I was changing.  Sorry for the false alarm, thanks
for checking.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of WorksForMe bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this,
set your search string to "IfItWorksForSlappyTheSquirrelThenItWFM".

if you think this particular bug is *still* an open issue, please make sure of
the following before reopening:

a. that it's still a problem with ***recent trunk builds*** on the all
appropriate platform[s]

b. provide clear steps to reproduce (unless a good test case is already in the
bug report), making sure it pertains to the original problem (avoid morphing as
much as possible :)