261874 - Several user_prefs in user.js are ignored.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[jan lambert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Known prefs ignored in user.js but active if entered thru prefs-UI:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","G:\");        
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.cruzio.com");
user_pref("browser.startup.page",0);                           
user_pref("browser.throbber.url", "http://"); 

Several security.warn_.. prefs are ignored also, but i'm not sure what they do.
This is simular to bug 234846

                 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.delete prefs.js,xpti.dat,XUL.mfi (just in case)
2.start browser
3.check about:config

Actual Results:  
browser is using the default (in profile) cache path, throbber still throbs to
go home to Mozilla.org and mozilla startup page loads.

Expected Results:  
load blank page, and use g:\cache as the cache directory. Throbber URL should be
disabled.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Where did you put user.js?

Comment 2

[Peter Weilbacher]

Yes, I can reproduce that here.
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

browser.startup.page isn't a Firefox pref.

Other than that, do any prefs get read in at all?

Comment 4

[Peter Weilbacher]

Wait, yesterday I just copied the listed prefs as they are. But the first line
contains "G:\" instead of "G:\\" (the backslash needs to be escaped). This
basically means that the first prefs never ends.
"browser.cache.disk.parent_directory" then contains 
G:");        
user_pref(
and the rest of the file is just garbage to FF. If I change the first line to be
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","G:\\");
everything I put afterwards is copied to prefs.js and FF starts with the
expected pref settings.

I hence resolve as invalid.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change