I was looking at <http://crbug.com/19061>, which is a bug Tony filed to
merge the Local State and Preferences files. Both files hold user
preferences, but the idea is that Local State holds prefs that are common to
all user profiles, and Preferences is unique to each user (thus it is in the
Default/ user profile directory). We don't actually support using multiple
user profiles though, it seems.
The win for combining them is to remove another file read on startup. Also,
the distinction is confusing and some stuff is arguably in the wrong place
(e.g. browser window dimensions are in Local State). However, the loss is
that we will lose the ability to have multiple user profiles in one user
data directory (don't know what our plans are for this, if any).

This patch is pretty large so I'd like some feedback before starting it.

-- Evan Stade

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