Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob wrote: >> Chris Ilias <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 2013-07-28 4:57 PM, Rob wrote: >>>> Chris Ilias <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> about:config isn't intended to be a list of all available preferences. >>>> >>>> What is it intended for? >>> >>> I'm not confident in my understanding of it, but as I understand it... >>> it displays prefs that have been used (aka loaded). >>> For instance, if you load a fresh profile and go straight to >>> about:config, you won't see the pref browser.download.lastDir. Once you >>> download something, that pref will then appear in about:config. >> >> My understanding of the prefs system is this: >> >> There is a table of preferences, each of them with a data type, a default >> value, and some flags including whether they are "hidden". >> >> Upon starting the program, first the default values are loaded, and >> then they are merged with prefs.js and user.js. >> >> When the program exits, it writes the current state to prefs.js, but >> there the prefs are 'weeded' in the sense that only values that are >> different from default are written to prefs.js. So, prefs.js is not >> a full catalog of available prefs, but only the list of values that has >> been set different from default (either by the user or by some automatic >> action within the program, including your example of downloading and >> saving something). >> >> about:config is a bit different. It shows all the values that are not >> "hidden". When a value is at its default, it shows the entry in normal >> font. Those are the ones what won't be written to prefs.js. >> When a value has been set differently, it shows in bold font here. >> (when it has been locked it shows in italic font) > > YL,YL > > Ron, I was of the opinion that prefs.js was the file that was shown, in > SeaMonkey's Browser, when I entered "about:config" in the browser > address line, but, as you state above, prefs.js is a listing of the > prefs, from about:config, *that had been changed from the default!!* > > That's my thing for the day!!
The file prefs.js (and user.js) is in your profile, and it looks a bit different from what you see in about:config because it is a series of javascript lines. And yes, it contains only values that were changed from the default, those that are shown in bold in about:config. When you edit prefs.js manually with Seamonkey closed, then start and close Seamonkey, you may find that lines that you have edited are suddenly gone. That happens when you edit them to the default value. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
