On 10/2/2013 1:10 AM, Daniel wrote:
Desiree wrote:
On 10/1/2013 5:03 AM, Daniel wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Desiree wrote:

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How so?  The DEFAULT behavior was changed so I don't follow your
reasoning.  If I had a  USER designated preference and I put that in a
user.js file then that wouldn't be changed with a new version of
SeaMonkey but this happened because the default behavior was changed.

Desiree, if you set a pref in a user.js file then, each time you start
SM or FF, that pref is applied *after* the prefs.js file is read, so,
unless the pref you set is totally disabled, SM/FF will start up with
the pref set to default and then be set as per your user.js file.

Or something like that!!

Thinking further, maybe, in the start-up process, the user.js settings
might be read into the prefs.js file and then SM/FF starts up.

So, if I had known that in Fx 2.21 that the default preference would
change then, before I upgraded, I could have put the default preference
from 2.20 in my user.js file and then upgraded to 2.21 and I would not
have had the problem.  But how would I know ahead of the change that it
was going to cause a problem?  I'm still not getting your point.

Yes, I suppose I'm not helping you ...... this time, but maybe, next time!!

But, thinking about it, this could happen every update and to every
setting in prefs.js, so I wonder why we don't copy "our" prefs.js into
user.js before every update, ... you know, just in case!!

Yeah...but if you did that then you would never know if a change would work ok and that maybe you would like the change.
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