Closed Bug 1415764 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Preferences at /myprofile/preferences/myprefs.js are no longer loaded

Categories

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

58 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1416279

People

(Reporter: trap+bugzillamozilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a user.js file in a new profile.
2. Set a dummy pref: `user_pref("dummy", "hello world");` in user.js
3. Create a myuser.js in preferences folder (xxxxxx.profile/preferences/myuser.js)
4. Set a dummy pref: `user_pref("dummy", "world domination");` in user.js
5. Launch FF 58 and look for dummy in `about:config`
6. Observe that dummy=hello world
7. Launch the profile in FF 56.0.2 and look for dummy in `about:config` observe that dummy=world domination


Actual results:

Settings from xxxxxx.profile/preferences/any.js are no longer applied in nightly.


Expected results:

Settings from xxxxxx.profile/preferences/any.js are should be read and applied.
Component: Untriaged → Preferences: Backend
Product: Firefox → Core
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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