314970 - prefs.js is executable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 461322

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC & forums)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051102 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051102 Firefox/1.5

prefs.js is executable (permissions 755), even though it, well, shouldn't be.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to in <program>/defaults/profile or <profile>/.
2. Look down at prefs.js.
Actual Results:  
prefs.js is executable.

Expected Results:  
prefs.js isn't executable.

Please don't hurt me for filing a totally stupid bug. :( Especially if it already has been filed.

If prefs.js has to be executable, it should do something cool like printing a secret message or auto-configuring everything, instead of just spouting errors that don't make sense:

$ ./prefs.js
./prefs.js: line 3: /KNOPPIX: is a directory
./prefs.js: line 4: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 5: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 6: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 7: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 8: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 9: bookmarks.html: command not found
./prefs.js: line 10: chrome/: is a directory

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

There are many files in Fx distribution itself that are executable without a reason I know: *.so, *.xml, *.png, *.xpm. Is there a bug for that?

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Same with Thunderbird version 2 beta 1 (20061121)