305117 - browser.xul.error_pages.enabled should be removed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Andreas Morawietz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050818 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050818 Firefox/1.6a1

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled should be set to true by default and can be
removed. 

I think, nobody needs the old popup-windows with error-messages, because they
contain less information about the error and how it can be solved.
error pages are much better!

Additional, I think that firefox could be faster, if there are fewer options -
because firefox must load fewer options. Am I right? 


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled is set to true by default.

-> WFM?

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

He was talking about removing the whole pref.
I don't think the browser would become faster, but I think I agree the pref can
be removed.

Comment 3

[Andreas Morawietz]

(In reply to comment #2)
> He was talking about removing the whole pref.
> I don't think the browser would become faster, but I think I agree the pref can
> be removed.

Thanks. Ok, with removing this one pref, firefox wouldn't become faster.
But I think, if firefox had fewer prefs, it could be faster. It's only a thought...

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

The cost of one pref is very cheap, so that shouldn't really matter. But i think
there are people that don't want error pages for some reasons (for example
certain embedders).

Comment 5

[Aaron Lehmann]

I don't want error pages.

Comment 6

[timeless]

some of us don't want xul. i don't want error pages.

Comment 7

[Andreas Morawietz]

some people want to use these popup-windows