114020 - Corruption of prefs.js file beginning 2001-12-04

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 113482

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[walter sheets]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011203
BuildID:    2001120408 and later

The MailNews settings stored in prefs.js are being corrupted.

Example: 
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.compose_html", "false");

The word false should not be in quotes.  This makes it
impossible to un-check the "Compose in html" box in the
MailNews preferences.

Example:
user_pref("mail.server.server1.daysToKeepBodies", "30");

The number 30 was not in quotes until Dec 4.  I don't know
if the quoting of numerical values is bad or not.

Note: this is a duplicate of a report I filed yesterday
which I can't find today.  I accidentally deleted my
.mozilla directory because of this bug so I don't have
the bug aknowlegement number, sorry :-(

When I filed the bug yesterday I didn't know what the
problem with prefs.js was.  I think this makes the
diagnosis clear.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use any build after 2001-12-03
2.e.g. delete .mozilla and start from scratch with new MailNews settings.
3.Try to change the "Compose in html" checkbox.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113482 ***

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

it's not a mail database bug - it's a browser prefs bug, for future reference.