On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:48:31 +1100, Daniel <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>fel wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:16:19 -0800, Rufus<[email protected]> in >> mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote: >> >>> I understand the risks involved with fooling around with about:config if >>> one doesn't know what one is doing...workarounds are fine for >>> experienced users, but not for the masses. >> >> Absolutely. Us masses just make our changes directly in prefs.js. >> But seriously, I wonder just how dumbed down you think that a computer >> should be. >> > >Us masses should not even be, directly, touching prefs.js!! Make the >changes in user.js and let SM copy them into prefs.js!! That, sir, is your opinion. I do not share it. Assuming that aspect (user.js/prefs.js) works the same way it used to. It is totally unnecessary because prefs.js is called into memory and drags user.js with it, hence, the changes -- or the errors -- *effectively* are part of the mother memory file -- which happens to have started as the textual file prefs.js. I would not tell the elderly lady across the street to open prefs.js in her favorite editor (as if she had one or knew what it was), but I have no problem with doing so myself, if necessary. I normally make the changes desired in the about:config utility. *PRIOR* to it's existence -- and that may go back to Netscape, I don't know nor care -- i did make changes in prefs.js. I do not consider myself part of a priesthood, I consider myself part of the "masses". Now, it is my opinion that those who make statements like you did above must consider themselves to be several cuts above the 'masses'. A bit like a counselor/teacher in a daycare school of infants in concept. If you want to keep it a secret, compile it with a proprietary compiler -- and then you can bet that someone is going to find a way to decompile it. Do you disagree? (This microcosm leads to a larger subject, but I don't think I will broach that in this thread) jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
