1193801 - Problem with reload of config with autoadmin.global_config_url

Status: NEW

(Core :: AutoConfig (Mission Control Desktop), defect, P5)

Description

[TMK]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150806001005

Steps to reproduce:

I read the user-config over autoadmin. After an update from FF 39.0.3 to 40, the autoadmin.global_config_url woud only be read on the first startup after the installation. Another FF-startup would'n read the configuration and starts with the last one (i think the failover.jsc)


Actual results:

nothing?!


Expected results:

the new configuration loaded should be working.

Comment 1

[TMK]

It depends on german "Umlaut" äöü within a external config file, here in a comment line. If i delete the "Umlaut" within the comment line, the autoadmin file would read normally.

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=global_config_url


The GetCharPref may needs to getComplexValue for support unicode.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIPrefBranch#getComplexValue%28%29

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Unassigning since it's a good first bug.