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How the preference branches are stored in firefox?

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jindongpu
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I have a question related to firefox preferences.

From the firefox online documentations and tutorial, I learned that firefox organizes its preferences options as branches. Put another way, preferences are organized hierarchically. I noticed that there are some methods interfacing with a hash table.

I am curious how exactly the preferences are stored in firefox source code? What types of data structures are used to store them? Which file should I look at? Thanks!

I have a question related to firefox preferences. From the firefox online documentations and tutorial, I learned that firefox organizes its preferences options as branches. Put another way, preferences are organized hierarchically. I noticed that there are some methods interfacing with a hash table. I am curious how exactly the preferences are stored in firefox source code? What types of data structures are used to store them? Which file should I look at? Thanks!

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You can explore the source code on this site:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/

Simply search for the full name of a preference of interest to see how defaults are set and accessed.

cor-el
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You can also inspect the page source of the about:config page to see how that page gets constructed

  • chrome://global/content/config.js