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about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-25, 16:51
by VLMin
Greetings!

Mozilla has this page http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries, but it is aging out, and in any event PM config settings have diverged from those used in Firefox and will continue to do so. That said, does the PM team maintain any sort of list of about:config settings, descriptions, and corresponding values in a form that we users might find at least somewhat accessible?

Thank you.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-25, 16:56
by New Tobin Paradigm
No. Nor will we.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-25, 19:54
by vannilla
To be fair 90% (or maybe more) of the about:config entries should not be touched unless you are actively developing the component using that entry, and even then you probably don't need to modify them anyway.
Basically, any documentation not for developers, which is documentation about the setting rather than the code using that setting, would be useless.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-25, 20:02
by New Tobin Paradigm
There are comments in gre and app prefs in the repo for most of them. But don't touch em.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-26, 07:46
by moonbat
There's Config Comments which shows the comments inline on the page. It's marked as alpha though and I've seen it spit a lot into the error console, but it works.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-26, 16:21
by VLMin
Thanks again Moonbat. Are you a member of the PM dev team?

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-26, 17:32
by New Tobin Paradigm
What does his signature say?

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-26, 20:11
by VLMin
It says he is an extension developer. But that could mean he is a member of the PM team or that he is an independent extension developer. Ergo, my question.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-26, 20:54
by Moonchild
New Tobin Paradigm wrote:
2021-07-26, 17:32
What does his signature say?

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-27, 03:27
by moonbat
Extension developer means exactly that and no more.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-27, 03:30
by New Tobin Paradigm
Moonbat's signature while in the Pale Moon style has differences such as his name is the community core pink color and has a moon..bat. I, btw, am the one who designed MOST of the signature images seen around here.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-27, 05:40
by VLMin
Thank you all; I believe my question has been abundantly answered. Have a blessed day.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-27, 05:47
by moonbat
Off-topic:
@Tobin - I think I"m fully recovered now :P
I don't bother with the subreddit anymore.

Re: about:config docs?

Posted: 2021-07-27, 05:54
by New Tobin Paradigm
Off-topic:
Addiction is a daily struggle.