140886 - Add default system services to prefs.js

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Currently, the information for which file and URL types Mozilla should be the
system's default is stored in the Windows registry (on my machine in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Desktop). This information is deleted upon
uninstall and hence no longer available after going to a new version.

If those preferences were in prefs.js the would stay the same for updates. For a
work-around see http://piology.org/mozilla/of-the-day.html which would also
improve dramatically with this enhancement.

This enhancement would also ease bug 131106.

pi

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaluszka]

See also bug 160896.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

System setting should be stored in system "storage" for them, otherwise how system would know about what it should use? Closing as invalid

Comment 4

[Aaron Kaluszka]

I believe the original complaint was that these prefs get wiped so they should be stored in BOTH places and synched with the system storage when appropriate.

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

(In reply to Aaron Kaluszka from comment #4)
> I believe the original complaint was that these prefs get wiped so they
> should be stored in BOTH places and synched with the system storage when
> appropriate.
Possibly, but as nobody else for 10 years step in and say that this feature would be useful, nor implement it, I think that it's better close this one :)

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Since these days you don't have to uninstall and reinstall SeaMonkey to update, I don't think my original request is required anymore.

pi