289251 - Setting browser.display.show_image_placeholders to false doesn't stick

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+ (BlueFyre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+ (BlueFyre)

When I change browser.display.show_image_placeholders in about:config to false,
the setting doesn't survive a browser restart.
For a permanent change I have to add the pref to firefox.js. 
This is time consuming, as the placeholders come back with every new Firefox
build or version. A lot of new Firefox users don't like the placeholders and I
have to explain frequently how to make them disappear. They often wonder why
putting the user pref into user.js doesn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to about:config and set browser.display.show_image_placeholders to false,
or put the pref into user.js.
2. Restart the browser.

Actual Results:  
The placeholders are back again.

Expected Results:  
They should be gone.

It should be easier to change the setting for first hour users who experience
these placeholders as odd and ugly.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[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

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This works for me since a long time.