Closed Bug 1608517 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

User pref "browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled" ignored FF72

Categories

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Messaging System
Version:
72 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1599138

People

(Reporter: colin.templeman, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

When the "What's New" toolbar icon and menu entry was recently introduced in FF70 I added "user_pref("browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled", false);" to my user.js. This was successfully incorporated into prefs.js and suppressed the unwanted pop-up notifcation. Now FF72 has been released, this pref is ignored/over-ridden.

Actual results:

With the release of FF72 the user pref is ignored/over-ridden and the unwanted toolbar icon and hamburger menu entry is back.

Expected results:

The user pref should be honoured and suppress the toolbar icon and hamburger menu entry.

Duplicate of bug 1599138 via bug 1607879.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Messaging System
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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