Re: Understanding Preferences

[email protected] Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:14:06 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpfe
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 4:53:31 PM UTC-6, Neil wrote:
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> >The use of a different location to store the prefs brings up a question.  Why have the prefs.js in <appdir>/defaults/preferences and another one in the users AppData directory structure?
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> default/preferences is just the default values for the preferences for 
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> all users, but individual users might want to customise their 
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> preferences, and those customisations go into the user AppData.
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> Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Neil,

Thanks.  I was assuming that the prefs.js for the app was the only such file.  Makes sense now.

Cheers!