703577 - change to extensions.autoDisableScopes in systemwide prefs.js is not taken into accoun

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[doktor5000]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1
Build ID: 20111116145353

Steps to reproduce:

Change the default of 15 for extensions.autoDisableScopes to 7 in the systemwide prefs.js


Actual results:

This change is not taken into account, firefox still starts with extensions.autoDisableScopes defaulting to 15.

Changing it via about:config manually to 7, and looking at the resulting entry in the user profiles prefs.js, it is the exact same entry as in the systemwide prefs.js.


Expected results:

Firefox should respect a change to extensions.autoDisableScopes via systemwide prefs.js.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

What do you mean with system wide pref? Where is it located in your case?

Comment 2

[doktor5000]

The system-wide one is located in /usr/lib64/firefox-8.0.1/defaults/profile/prefs.js opposed to the one in the user profile dir. According to https://developer.mozilla.org/En/A_Brief_Guide_to_Mozilla_Preferences#Preferences_Loading_and_Resolution when there are no other .js/config file which overwrite this preference, it should be effective. And there is no extensions.autoDisableScopes in the user profile dir user.js or prefs.js

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until July 20)]

(In reply to doktor5000 from comment #2)
> The system-wide one is located in
> /usr/lib64/firefox-8.0.1/defaults/profile/prefs.js opposed to the one in the
> user profile dir. According to
> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/
> A_Brief_Guide_to_Mozilla_Preferences#Preferences_Loading_and_Resolution when
> there are no other .js/config file which overwrite this preference, it
> should be effective. And there is no extensions.autoDisableScopes in the
> user profile dir user.js or prefs.js

I don't think this file is read on any startup, I think it is instead copied to the profile folder for new profiles but I'm not sure because we don't ship one by default. You want to add a pref to a file in <installdir>/defaults/pref