On 10/30/01 04:08 PM, Daniel Veditz wrote:

> Pratik wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 10/30/01 02:02 PM, Jay Garcia wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Also, if you configure reply at the bottom in one, it changes to TOP 
>>>in the other when you restart. 
>>>
>>I dont understand this though. All pref changes in one are honoured by 
>>teh other but what is so special about "reply at top" pref and " 
>>"forward attachment" pref both of which seem to revert back to default.
>>
> 
> 
> The pref system does not save prefs when they match the default, so for every
> 
> pref where Mozilla and N6 have different defaults your settings will only
> stick if they differ from *both* of them. Otherwise as you switch back and
> forth your setting eventually goes away and you get the default in each
> product.


Ok. That makes sense.

 
> your choices are
> 1) live with it :-)
> 2) create "user.js" next to prefs.js and put the affected prefs
>     there -- these will not be overridden or touched. But also
>     any subsequent changes you make in the prefs dialog will only
>     last for that session since the user.js setting will win at
>     next start


Now why didnt I think of that? Great idea. I'll use user.js if I do 
major shuttling between 6.2 and Mozilla but since 6.2 doesn't have tabs 
and you can't change the order of columns in Mail/News, I think I'll 
just stick to the latest nightly  (or 0.9.5 when things go bad)

Thanks.
Pratik.


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