jim wrote:
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 she *IS* part of "the masses", so she is exactly whom you *ARE*
advocating to fiddle with prefs.js!
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
No, Sir, I do not agree, but am merely suggesting that those that are
unsure, or who just don't have a clue, should not fiddle where they can,
inadvertently, do damage to to the programs operation!!
The programs designers have given us (you, me, and the unsure) the safer
method, so why not use it and promote its use!
--
Seasons greeting, one and all....
and may next year be a better one!
Daniel
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