Open Bug 852764 Opened 12 years ago Updated 2 years ago

about:config should offer a textarea for editing large values

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(Toolkit :: Preferences, enhancement)

enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: NiKo, Unassigned)

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(Depends on 1 open bug)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130219 Firefox/21.0 Build ID: 20130219031055 Steps to reproduce: I wanted to edit a large text value for some flag in about:config Actual results: The tiny input is really small to do so (see capture) Expected results: A resizable textarea could help. Note: I suspect this is actually a feature in order to prevent people to store huge pieces of text in there, but I'm seeing huge amount of JSON stored by the browser itself here, so…
Component: Untriaged → Preferences
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: 21 Branch → Trunk
Blocks: 1493439
No longer blocks: 1493439
Depends on: 1524782
Severity: normal → S3
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