Nobody likes boring code Mozilla products like Thunderbird and Firefox represent setting choices in a textual “tree” system. (Read the intro.) Preferences that begin with print. live on the tree branch dealing with printing while those that begin with app.update. are on the auto-update system’s branch. An easy concept to grasp. In practice, however, the [...]
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Individual in the Enterprise Firefox, Thunderbird have full-fledged graphical settings editors. It is easy for a user to change the behavior of his or her web browser with a few mouse clicks. While this approach is sensible for the home user, GUIs hamper software configuration in the corporate enterprise. Although Mozilla products textually represent preferences [...]
