Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob wrote: >> Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Not wanting to get picky-picky (because of the work you do for us SM >>> users) but reading between the lines here, does this imply that hidden >>> prefs don't (necessarily) do anything, or did you just mis-type "hidden" >>> rather than "absent"?? >> >> You have to understand that in about:config you can basically type any >> name you want and set it to any value you want. Only when the program >> code is reading the name you typed it will do anything. There is a >> pre-populated list of names and values that you see, but even that >> does not guarantee that changing them actually has any effect at all. >> There can be names/values in the list that are never (or no longer) >> used anywhere in the program. > > Rob, I am aware that "There is a pre-populated list of names and values > that you see". I am aware that more can be hand-added. I am also aware > that there is a pre-populated list of names and values that you *don't* > see i.e. hidden prefs.
But that is not correct. There is no such list. Hidden prefs are those prefs that *are* read from the program code, but are *not* in the list of prefs that you see. When you know the name of such a pref, you can add it and set its value. Just you can add "this.is.a.pref" and set it to 1. The difference is that no piece of code checks the value of "this.is.a.pref" and so this setting has no effect. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
