1796652 - Make pref app.update.log.file available by default in Thunderbird (as in FF)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1789337 +++

Update logging via pref and respective instructions to users become unnecessarily hard and even more error and failure prone when users first need to create the pref, which in turn makes bug triage/QA harder, too.

We should make the pref app.update.log.file available by default in Thunderbird (with a value of false), as it is in Firefox, also for consistency of the process and documentation.

Should be a one-liner in TB's central prefs file (good first bug), maybe something for our new devs?

Background:

We are often asking users with Thunderbird update problems to do logging of some sort (at least 3 different ways, see my Bug 1789337 Comment 9). One way is using app.update.log.file pref, which creates update_messages.log file with a series of cryptic (error/return code?) numbers in profile folder, which apparently is useful for debugging by the experts.

Comment 1

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Attachment: Bug 1796652 - Additional update related preferences. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Copied from firefox.js so that these prefs appear in the config editor now.
app.update.log.file is particularly helpful.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/985c1ed6966d
Additional update related preferences. r=aleca

Comment 3

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Backout:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f51de3163355d2f1f458f5618959ed3fb9e5b05a

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Rob Lemley [:rjl] from comment #3)

Backout:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f51de3163355d2f1f458f5618959ed3fb9e5b05a

What went wrong?

Comment 5

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

(In reply to Thomas D. (:thomas8) from comment #4)

What went wrong?

I got a little overzealous copying preferences over and grabbed a langpack update one that doesn't work with Thunderbird yet.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/eaeeea715e06
Additional update related preferences. r=#thunderbird-reviewers