115093 - user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", "true"); over written

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 107264

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[riscky]

If a user edits prefs.js and enters:

user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", "true");
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_unload", "true");

next time you check your prefs.js only the unload entry will exist. The only
user_pref that works for load is to use true with out the "'s. The two either
both should fail if true false is in "'s or both should work... since no gui
front end exist for these two options.

(Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011211)
Also see bug 92955 and 75371

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

users should primarily use user.js to avoid breaking things when they add typos
or syntax errors like the ones you mention. In bad cases syntax errors can cause
prefs.js to be ignored (bug 107264)
See comment http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107264#c6

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107264 ***

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Vrfy.

true != "true"

Remove the quotes from the boolean.

Comment 3

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

There is no evidence in LXR that "dom.disable_open_during_unload" exists as a
supported preference.

"dom.disable_open_during_load" is a boolean preference, not a char preference,
and therefore should be set as:
 user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
not
 user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", "true");