1435277 - Cannot set boolean value using autoconfig scripts

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[kukuryku19]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Firefox 58.0.1 (32 bits) using default settings. Installation directory: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.
2. Create autoconfig.js file (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\autoconfig.js) with following content:

// DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

// Firefox 56+ - enable use of enterprise roots
defaultPref("security.enterprise_roots.enabled", true);
pref("security.enterprise_roots.enabled", true);

3. Start firefox.
4. Navigate to about:config and accept the risk.
5. Search for security.enterprise_roots


Actual results:

The value of security.enterprise_roots remains unchanged and is set to false.

I've tried with other boolean values and there is the same problem. I am able to change other values (literals, number) as long as script does not change any boolean value.

I've also tried using dedicated cfg file with exactly the same results.


Expected results:

The value of security.enterprise_roots should be:
1) Defaulted to true
2) Changed to true

Comment 1

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

You are confusing preference files with autoconfig files. If you press Ctrl+Shift+J to open Browser Console, you will see an error like:
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\autoconfig.js:4: prefs parse error: unknown keyword

Please try:
// Firefox 56+ - enable use of enterprise roots
pref("security.enterprise_roots.enabled", true);
user_pref("security.enterprise_roots.enabled", true);

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

2019-03-06

This bug is part of a group of bugs which have had an open needinfo for at least 12 weeks.

The request for information has not been answered, and we can't move forward on the bug so we are closing it.

If the defect is still present, please reopen this bug with an updated report.