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[Jan Groenewald <jan.groenewald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 14.04 up to date 64bit, firefox 36

We had a non-existent setting in /etc/firefox/syspref.js. Firefox
ignored the rest of the file until we commented it out. This is probably
a bug. (FYI, this is a computer lab environment with network filesystem
and disk space quotas.)

// Mandatory settings
lockPref("browser.cache.disk.capacity",         0); 
//lockpref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value", 0); // non-existent settings cause firefox to stop reading the rest of this file zomgwtfbbq
lockPref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled", false); 
lockPref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); 
lockPref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
lockPref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cache", true);

Better behaviour might be to ignore that line but continue reading the
file, or to throw a tantrum^H^H^H^H^Herror.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436207

Title:
  firefox stops reading syspref.js after encountering non-existent
  setting

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 14.04 up to date 64bit, firefox 36

  We had a non-existent setting in /etc/firefox/syspref.js. Firefox
  ignored the rest of the file until we commented it out. This is
  probably a bug. (FYI, this is a computer lab environment with network
  filesystem and disk space quotas.)

  // Mandatory settings
  lockPref("browser.cache.disk.capacity",         0); 
  //lockpref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value", 0); // non-existent settings cause firefox to stop reading the rest of this file zomgwtfbbq
  lockPref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled", false); 
  lockPref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); 
  lockPref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
  lockPref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cache", true);

  Better behaviour might be to ignore that line but continue reading the
  file, or to throw a tantrum^H^H^H^H^Herror.

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