1997147 - Stop syncing browser.discovery.enabled

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Jared Hirsch [:jhirsch] (he/him) (Needinfo please)]

As described in the metabug (bug 1996995), the browser.discovery.enabled pref is currently managed by both sync and profiles, but per :markh there is not a strong reason to sync it. So, let's remove the pref from the list in firefox.js.

Comment 1

[Jessilyn Davis]

@jared - are you going to do this? Or do you want Mark to take it?

Comment 2

[Jared Hirsch [:jhirsch] (he/him) (Needinfo please)]

Oh, thanks for the ping! I'll get that out for review now and r?markh

Comment 3

[Jared Hirsch [:jhirsch] (he/him) (Needinfo please)]

Attachment: Bug 1997147 - Stop syncing the browser.discovery.enabled pref to avoid conflicts with profiles r?markh

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/62cda2f98d9a
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/c16af342e682
Stop syncing the browser.discovery.enabled pref to avoid conflicts with profiles r=markh

Comment 5

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c16af342e682

Comment 6

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

I was able to reproduce this issue using Nightly 146.0a1(2025-10-29) - the browser.discovery.enabled pref is synced.
Verified as fixed using the Beta 146.0b2 and the latest Nightly 147.0a1 on Windows 11, MacOS 13.2.1 and Ubuntu 24.10- the browser.discovery.enabled pref is not synced.