516636 - Figure out a way to register our stringbundle override in time to support localization of additional files (and restore them)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

We discovered, as part of the investigation in bug 394105, that a number of bits of Gecko code ignored our stringbundle override, often by caching their nsStringBundle instances during their own init, and their init beats nsStringBundleService noticing our override; see bug 394105 comment 30.

While Stuart was able to develop a hack that got us NSS/PSM strings, there are two files that we can't currently get registered in time to override:

communicator_locale_typeaheadfind_properties.strings
global_locale_security_caps_properties.strings

FAYT is not terribly critical ever, but CAPS would be a good one to see if we can fix at some point.  At such a time as we do get the override registered in time, we should add back these files (they were removed from GECKO_STRINGS in the Makefile, from the project, and even from CVS).

Comment 1

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]