855766 - "pref set" command doesn't seem to work at all

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools Graveyard :: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

I just tried to do
> pref set devtools.theme "dark"
and nothing seemed to be updated when checking about:config :(

Comment 1

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

bump.

Comment 2

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Hmmm. WFM.
It is still broken?

Comment 3

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

(In reply to Joe Walker [:jwalker] from comment #2)
> Hmmm. WFM.
> It is still broken?

No. Just test out
> pref set devtools.chrome.enabled false
and check out about:config afterwards. Nothing seems to have changed. Or, like in the first comment:
> pref set devtools.theme dark
Nada.

Tried with a clean profile as well, still nothing changes. Both m-c and fx-team tip.

Comment 4

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

FWIW, I think I've got a fix for this. Hope to have a patch soon.

Comment 5

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Victor: Is this still broken for you?

Comment 6

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Neither fx-team tip nor Nightly seem to behave any differently :(
> pref set devtools.chrome.enabled false
> pref show devtools.chrome.enabled 
--> true

Comment 7

[AliN]

The bug still exists in version 23.0. I’ve tried both Windows and Linux platforms.

Comment 8

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Another confirmation here. On both Nightly (28.0a1) and Release (25.0.1) on Linux, I am not able to set any preferences. The 'pref set' command appears to execute without error, but the setting is not changed. This is true for properties with boolean as well as string values, as well as properties that have a default values and ones that do not. The command 'pref reset' does work, however.

Comment 9

[Johan K. Jensen :johankj]

Works for me on Firefox 39.

Comment 10

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Agreed, pref set now appears to work.

Please re-open if it's still broken for you.