Open Bug 1283300 Opened 8 years ago Updated 1 year ago

[META] Audit preferences and code constants for outdated values

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Type:
defect

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Tracking Status
firefox50 --- affected

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(Reporter: bugs, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: meta)

We've been in the Web Layout Engine business for some time now. There may be preferences and code constants in Gecko that were set years ago that no longer make sense. Please hang bugs off this meta-bug to scrub those prefs and modify/remove them as needed. Some ideas on what to look out for: * The value was set when Windows95 was the major OS. * The value is the same for all platforms (mobile and desktop.) * The value assumed 640 x 480 or some other hardcoded rendering environment. * The pref holds a time value that was set when i386 CPUs were common. * Other features have shipped that change assumptions made.
Depends on: 1283302
Flags: needinfo?(ajones)
Depends on: 1284993
JW - can you take a look to see if there are any hard coded numbers that no longer make sense?
Flags: needinfo?(ajones) → needinfo?(jwwang)

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Flags: needinfo?(suro001)
Severity: normal → S3
No longer depends on: 1356710

Narrowing the scope of this bug to only outdated values to avoid overlap with bug 1773039

No longer depends on: 1297996, 1322251, 1322254, 1325637
See Also: → https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773039
Summary: [META] Audit preferences and code constants for outdated/obsolete/wrong values → [META] Audit preferences and code constants for outdated values
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