On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Daniel Veditz <dved...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> ​Prefs might be a terrible way to implement that functionality, but it's > been used that way as long as we've had prefs in Mozilla so there seems to > be a need for it. Early offenders: printer setup, mail accounts, external > protocol handlers (and I believe content-type handlers, but those moved out > long ago). Possibly inspired by the way the Windows registry was used. > The Windows registry is a very good comparison, alas. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform