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WRONG! edit user.js not prefs.js
Authored by: risc_abacus on Jan 13, '02 05:44:49PM

I am sorry but this tip is SOOO wrong. Users should never edit prefs.js. Instead users are supposed to make a new fie called user.js and edit that. Editing prefs.js could case problems.

See http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html and http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/prefs/index.html

other than haveing users edit prefs.js instead of user.js this is a great tip.



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RE: WRONG! edit user.js not prefs.js
Authored by: skyko on Jan 14, '02 01:41:08AM
Thanks for pointing this out! Nevertheless the prefs will end up in prefs.js (Mozilla will take them from there and write them into prefs.js -- tricky if there's a pref setting in the prefs.js already ;-). What I'd really like to see is a possibility to edit the prefs right there in the about:config page!

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