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I can't find browser.preferences.incontent.

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neonzebra
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The latest version of firefox just installed itself on my PC. The "cookies" window no longer works as a stand alone, apparently. I typed "about:config" in order to change "browser.preferences.incontent" to "false", but it was already "false" Somehow, while playing around with it, the "browser.preferences.incontent" string has disappeared entirely. I believe I clicked on "reset", which didn't do what I was hoping for, and now I can't find "browser.preferences.incontent" at all. Not sure what I've done, or what I should do.

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The latest version of firefox just installed itself on my PC. The "cookies" window no longer works as a stand alone, apparently. I typed "about:config" in order to change "browser.preferences.incontent" to "false", but it was already "false" Somehow, while playing around with it, the "browser.preferences.incontent" string has disappeared entirely. I believe I clicked on "reset", which didn't do what I was hoping for, and now I can't find "browser.preferences.incontent" at all. Not sure what I've done, or what I should do. Thanks.

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hi neonzebra, the browser.preferences.inContent preference was just in place temporarily for a transitional period. now that there were new features and settings going into preferences and old windowed interface was no longer maintained, its users would have missed out on them, so the support has been totally dropped in firefox 42.

if you still miss the old styling - the classic theme restorer addon from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/ contains some tweaks to make the options-styling more familiar...

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philipp
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hi neonzebra, the browser.preferences.inContent preference was just in place temporarily for a transitional period. now that there were new features and settings going into preferences and old windowed interface was no longer maintained, its users would have missed out on them, so the support has been totally dropped in firefox 42.

if you still miss the old styling - the classic theme restorer addon from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/ contains some tweaks to make the options-styling more familiar...

neonzebra
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Thanks very much for the quick reply philipp. Just to clarify, does that mean that whatever I've done to make the browser.preferences.incontent string disappear completely isn't going to affect firefox in any way?

philipp
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no, you've done nothing wrong here - this is the expected behaviour in firefox 42 and above, as the preference has been removed from the browser in those builds. if you had customized it before it would still show up in about:config (without having any effect), but resetting the preference, totally clears it now...

neonzebra
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Thanks very much.

cor-el
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