Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-02 Thread Mike Kaply
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, No

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-02 Thread Axel Hecht
Looping in mkaply explicitly, if that has impact on organizational deployments. Axel Am 02.11.17 um 00:41 schrieb Nicholas Nethercote: 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

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-02 Thread o . e . ekker
On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 1:08:21 AM UTC+1, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:06:09AM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > > On 02/11/2017 00:41, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > > > 1) Remove the defaults/preferences directory support for extensions. This > > is a feature that was

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-01 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:06:09AM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: On 02/11/2017 00:41, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: 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. Is that the facility tha

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-01 Thread Jörg Knobloch
On 02/11/2017 00:41, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: 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. Is that the facility that legacy extensions can have

Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-01 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
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) Re