User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0 Build ID: 20120624012213 Steps to reproduce: Every simple-prefs type should have a preference "hidden" (defaults to false) that, when set, would not show the preference in the addons manager. Useful for providing advanced / possibly dangerous preferences via about:config for advanced users. Or for internal use when there's need to save something as a pref (say there's a control setting something invisibly) to be synced across browsers.

You can already sort of do that with the low-level preferences-service module: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/packages/api-utils/preferences-service.html Would using that be acceptable for what you want to do?

Absolutely, that's the stuff I needed. It's just so confusing that it's not on the same place :). Thank you, I guess this can be closed.

Maybe we can add a bit to simple-prefs documentation pointing out that the preferences-service can be used to get more low-level control over preferences.

Should we keep this bug open, and raise another to update the doc? This sounds like a reasonable feature to ask for in the high level API, and if we make this just a documentation bug, we'll lose that.

(In reply to Will Bamberg [:wbamberg] from comment #4) > Should we keep this bug open, and raise another to update the doc? This > sounds like a reasonable feature to ask for in the high level API, and if we > make this just a documentation bug, we'll lose that. A 'hidden' type sounds reasonable for the preference sync'ing use case. It would also avoid the need for users to set prefs in two places.

(In reply to Wes Kocher (:KWierso) from comment #3) > Maybe we can add a bit to simple-prefs documentation pointing out that the > preferences-service can be used to get more low-level control over > preferences. Let's make another bug for that.

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Comment on attachment 750530 [details] Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/1000 This pull request is now 2 months old, I'm giving it to someone else.

Comment on attachment 750530 [details] Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/1000 Rejecting in order to make hidden be a separate from type as agreed on IRC.

Pointer to Github pull-request

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/cb5d206f778d80eb6c175d2829cca2eb7107d3c3 Bug 768388: support hidden pref type https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/2a40cf47944fb9e1b45ec019a5495b86d39d0233 Merge pull request #1114 from erikvold/768388v2 Bug 768388: support hidden pref type r=@gozala

I'm going through the list of open bugs that github robot has commented in. Is this bug fixed, Irakli?

(In reply to Wes Kocher (:KWierso) from comment #12) > I'm going through the list of open bugs that github robot has commented in. > Is this bug fixed, Irakli? It seems merged so I guess it is fixed.