[25920] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.3.8: mozilla password manager
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Aug 9 17:40:25 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:40:12 -0400
Message-Id: <200408092140.i79LeCKe027547@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25914] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Thanks for the bug report.
We lost some of our related local customizations to mozilla's default
preferences when we updated to mozilla 1.7 recently. These will be
restored in an upcoming patch release. It's not clear that this
explains all of the symptoms you report, but it seems likely that
it is a significant part of the problem.
> At the time (27 Jul 2004) I looked and observed that
> signon.remeberSignons had disappeared from my prefs.js file, and this
> seemed to explain the problem. So I added it back in, but
> and after a while it disappeared again. So I added it to user.js.
Users should not modify prefs.js, as mozilla will overwrite the file.
The suggested way to modify a preference setting is by going to the
about:config URL.
> Also, as an aside, the decision to launch evolution by default from
> mozilla is incredibly painful to non-evolution users, especially on
> slow machines. It can cause the browser to hang for [what seems like]
> minutes. What's the correct way for users to undo this? Is it to set
>
> pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", false);
Yes, setting that preference to false will revert to using mozilla
mail. Again, the easiest way to change it is via the about:config
interface.
Bob
