257706 - addition to user.js copies itself into prefs.js

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50038

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.60 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [de] (IBM EVV/3.0/EAK01AG9/LE)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.7.3

Most of the time, an addition to user.js copies itself into prefs.js. That 
renders users.js unusable, as any further change has to be made in prefs.js as 
well.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
Unfortunately, I don't know how to reproduce it.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

That is by design that all entries of the read-only user.js are copied to the
prefs.js. See http://www.holgermetzger.de/faqprofile.html#2.

What do you mean with "unusable"? 

Comment 2

[Florian Effenberger]

Oh, sorry, did not know this. Thanks for making it clear. However, I think it
would be better if user.js was an *addition* to prefs.js, so its entries should
not be imported automatically. Moreover, prefs.js and user.js should be read at
startup altogether.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

User.js IS an addition to prefs.js which is automatically imported. Both ARE
read at startup and entries from user.js have higher priority than the entries
from pref.js and overwrite them. Ok, what isn't so clear is that the overriden
entries from pref.js are saved on shutdown of Mozilla etc.

Comment 4

[Florian Effenberger]

The annoying thing [tm] is that if you enter something in user.js and want to
remove it afterwards, you have to remove it twice. First from user.js, second
from prefs.js. That doesn't make much sense to me.

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

That is the known behavior. See bug 50038 comment 3 (and bug 185380). This was
already INVALID. 

Please resolve this bug as duplicate of bug 50038 (or bug 97397) if you agree.

Comment 6

[Florian Effenberger]

Marking as duplicate, but still not agreeing with this behavior. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50038 ***