Closed Bug 1601899 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

general.warnOnAboutConfig is not honored by About:Config HTML implementation in 71

Categories

(Toolkit :: Preferences, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Preferences
Version:
71 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr68 --- unaffected
firefox71 --- wontfix
firefox72 --- wontfix
firefox73 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

References

(Regression)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

set general.warnOnAboutConfig to false
Upgraded to v71 and opened about:config

Actual results:

a warning page displayed "Changing these preferences can impact Firefox performance or security."

Expected results:

about:config should open directly without any warning

There's a new preference called browser.aboutConfig.showWarning and the old one can be deleted, meaning it's no longer used. This is likely intentional, or something that won't be changed.

Component: Untriaged → Preferences
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Hardware: Unspecified → All

Paolo, why did the pref we used change?

status-firefox71: --- → affected
status-firefox72: --- → affected
status-firefox73: --- → affected
Flags: needinfo?(paolo.mozmail)
Regressed by: 1532703
Has Regression Range: --- → yes
Keywords: regression

This code now lives in the front-end "browser" folder, so in bug 1500542 I recommended to store the preference in "firefox.js" rather than "all.js", and change the name accordingly, phasing out the old name.

This was also intended to show the new wording on the warning page even for profiles where the old "about:config" warning had been skipped in the past.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(paolo.mozmail)
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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