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mozilla.cfg doesn't work version 48

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smithd4
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Using the following doesn't do anything to the about:config settings in firefox:

mozilla.cfg with just the following:

// lockPref("app.update.enabled", false);

This doesn't change the setting from true to false or dither it out as locked? Does this method not work for version 48?

I do have the local-settings.js file with the following under defaults/pref:

// pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg"); pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);

Help!!!

Using the following doesn't do anything to the about:config settings in firefox: mozilla.cfg with just the following: // lockPref("app.update.enabled", false); This doesn't change the setting from true to false or dither it out as locked? Does this method not work for version 48? I do have the local-settings.js file with the following under defaults/pref: // pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg"); pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); Help!!!

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I can't believe it, the problem was I needed to be using a single ' in the js file not regular double quotes " that I see on just about everything I have searched on. Arrrgh, very frustrating. It works now.  :-)

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Have you always had the // at the beginning of those lines? In JavaScript, that would turn the line from a command into a comment, which should deactivate it. ??

smithd4
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Everything I have read says to comment out the first line of the file...is that not correct?

smithd4
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// is on its own line but the formatting in the question changed it to the same line.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Oh, okay.

I'm still on Firefox 47 and haven't heard about any changes related to autoconfig in Firefox 48, so hopefully someone else knows what's going on.

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Chosen Solution

I can't believe it, the problem was I needed to be using a single ' in the js file not regular double quotes " that I see on just about everything I have searched on. Arrrgh, very frustrating. It works now.  :-)