When I first read this, I thought you meant the defaults/preferences
directory in Firefox.

Considering this only worked for true legacy extensions (not bootstrapped
extensions), this shouldn't be a problem for enterprise.

We double check to sure that no system add-ons need this.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413413 I am planning to
> remove a couple of things relating to preferences.
>
> 1) Remove the defaults/preferences directory support for extensions. This
> is a feature that was used by legacy extensions but is not used by
> WebExtensions.
>
> 2) Remove the "preferences" override directory in the user profile.
> This removes
> support for profile preferences override files other than user.js.
>
> The bug has a patch with r+. The specific things it removes include:
> - The "load-extension-default" notification.
> - The NS_EXT_PREFS_DEFAULTS_DIR_LIST/"ExtPrefDL" directory list, including
> the entry from the toolkit directory service.
>
> Does anybody foresee any problems with this change?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nick
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