272195 - backups.number_of_prefs_copies ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253259

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[alanjstr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The pref backups.number_of_prefs_copies used to work, and was good for
versioning prefs.js in case you broke something.  Now it doesn't work, but it
still appears in all.js.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This appears to be either invalid or a dup of bug 246722 or bug 253259. 
According to those bugs, this pref is now intentionally obsoleted and disabled.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Good catch, except those are for Seamonkey.  This is for Firefox.  Ok, so this
is obsoleted.  What replaced it?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the prefs backend is shared, so it doesn't matter which is which.  There isn't a
pref to dictate this any more, the need to have an arbitrary number of backups
was dealt with by using the "safe" write to disk function.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246722 ***

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

This still appears in all.js

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

I assume that the shared all.js on Trunk is 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253259 ***

Comment 6

[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