79724 - Color Prefs should be converted to integer values

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect, P4)

Description

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

This bug stems from bug 77828. A patch was checked in which internally converts
the string based color values into integer values. The recommendation was made
that we should:

>come up with a second patch which:
>- supports both strings and integers
>- fixes the migration code to change the strings to integers when migrating
>  a 4.x profile
>- change the defaults in all.js to use integers

Comment 1

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

The colors in question in all.js:

> pref("browser.display.foreground_color",    "#000000");
> pref("browser.display.background_color",    "#FFFFFF");
> pref("browser.anchor_color",                "#0000EE");
> pref("browser.active_color",                "#EE0000");
> pref("browser.visited_color",               "#551A8B");
> pref("browser.display.focus_background_color", "#117722");
> pref("browser.display.focus_text_color",     "#ffffff");

17 years later they are still strings, and this doesn't appear to be causing any problems. WONTFIX.