57969 - RFE: implement about:config

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37592

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

in 4.x we had "about:config: which would dump all the current pref values
to the screen.

it's pretty useful.

perhaps in 6.0, we could make it so you could edit your prefs on fly, too.

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

- What did the colours mean in 4.x's about:config?
- Can I enumerate prefs from JS?
- How about a tree widget?

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

- the colors referred to whether a pref was locked or not, and I think whether
it was equal to the default pref or not
- there's no clean way to enumerate prefs from JS. talked with shaver about this
briefly over IRC - I favored fixing CreateChildList() to be script-friendly
- I had thought about the tree widget idea as well, and was looking into the FTP
ui.. I subsequently got lost in the maze of necko

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

This would be cool...

Comment 4

[Tim Powell]

Should this be RFE? This is 4xp platform parity issue. See possible duplicate 
bug 37592 for an explanation of the colors in 4.x.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

dupping...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37592 ***

Comment 6

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verified dup.