On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com > wrote:
> This is a good example of how prefs is a far more general mechanism than I > would like, leading to all manner of use and abuse. "All I want is a > key-value store, with fast multi-threaded access, where the keys aren't > known ahead of time." > ​Prefs might be a terrible way to implement that functionality, but it's been used that way as long as we've had prefs in Mozilla so there seems to be a need for it. Early offenders: printer setup, mail accounts, external protocol handlers (and I believe content-type handlers, but those moved out long ago). Possibly inspired by the way the Windows registry was used. -Dan Veditz _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
