861794 - [meta] Remove some entries from the Settings API to avoid the overuse

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, defect)

Description

[Gene Lian (I already quit Mozilla)]

Please see bug 857545, comment #27. We believe we're overusing the Settings API for some settings, because it's a privileged API that is not exposed to web content. In the long-term, we should use it as little as possible.

For example, the |time.timezone| setting is one of the use-case that we should allow non-privileged apps and normal web content to receive the same notification whenever the time zone or DST is changed.

This is just meta bug to collect all the similar issues.

Comment 1

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

FxOS/Gonk has been removed from the codebase. Mass-invalidating FxOS related Device Interface bugs to clean up the component. 

If I incorrectly invalidated something, please let me know.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk correction of resolution of B2G bugs to INCOMPLETE.