1166565 - Firefox don't read the Autoconfig settings and rewrite ithem them to prefs.js at every launching.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150514102509

Steps to reproduce:

1. Place into \Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref autoconfig.js with the following contents:

pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);

2. Place into \Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\ firefox.cfg with the following contents:

//
lockPref("autoadmin.global_config_url", "http://%SITENAME%/firefox.cfg");
lockPref("autoadmin.append_emailaddr", false);
lockPref("autoadmin.failover_to_cached", true);
lockPref("autoadmin.offline_failover", true);

3. Edit %SITENAME%/firefox.cfg like you need.

4. Launch Firefox.  At the first launch Firefox succesfully assimilates and saves all settings from %SITENAME%/firefox.cfg.

5. Close Firefox. Make changes in %SITENAME%/firefox.cfg.

6. Launch Firefox again.


Actual results:

Firefox won't reread the changed settings and rewrite ithem them to prefs.js.


Expected results:

As far as I know Firefox must to load settings from %SITENAME%/firefox.cfg at every launch.

Comment 1

[Brindusa Tot, Desktop QA]

Not sure what the expected result should be in this case, perhaps there is someone with extensive knowledge on this area that might be able to help here.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE.

If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.