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
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