On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 12:10:21 AM UTC-5, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Hi, > > I was just looking at the extensions/pref/autoconfig/ directory and trying > to understand what it does. > > As far as I can tell, the code is there to allow custom deployments with > particular prefs set, as described at > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment#Configuration > > It's initialized by modules/libpref/Preferences.cpp if a > "general.config.filename" pref is found: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/1ebd2eff44617df3b82eea7d2f3ca1b60cc591a0/modules/libpref/Preferences.cpp#3907-3920 > > There is also some MozHarness code relating to it here: > http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/mozharness/mozharness/mozilla/firefox/autoconfig.py > > Just to check: is this still supported functionality? > > Thanks. > > Nick
Yes, this is very much supported functionality. It is our primary means of enterprise customization right now. The reason there are very few tests is because when it was first developed, it wasn't possible to write tests that involved putting down files before startup. There are some tests now: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/extensions/pref/autoconfig/test/unit Mike Kaply _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
