<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the answer. <br><div class="gmail_extra">Your addon is good, but the way I want is close button on the right of the tab strip. So unfortunately it doesn't fit for me. I'm using classicthemerestorer addon, it has needed function. But if I have a choice to have addon or pref, I would pick the pref.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If official position is to remove all hidden prefs it makes sense. For example to change about:config page to something more user-friendly. But if I do the decision I would tested them all via telemetry. Sometimes hidden prefs are not as hidden as it considered. Also it'd be very good for UX-team (if I were in ux-team) to know about hidden prefs which are used the most - they could be changed to real unhidden prefs. But it's my 5 cents.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-29 5:13 GMT+11:00 Benjamin Smedberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benjamin@smedbergs.us" target="_blank">benjamin@smedbergs.us</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 5/28/14, 1:50 PM, Алексей Шилов wrote:<br>
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There was a hidden pref, which I used. And even many tutorials from internet tells use this pref, because it makes closetab button more usefull (for some users). Now this pref was completely removed, and there is now different position of this buttons (on each tab). So it's broke user experience for those users who used this pref. It's told that nobody used this pref. I want to check, if significant number of users used this, or it was just me.<br>
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You may just want to install my extension which lets you customize this the way you want: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readable-and-closable-tabs/" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-<u></u>US/firefox/addon/readable-and-<u></u>closable-tabs/</a><br>
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We have been actively removing support for hidden preferences; in general, if you want a custom feature like this, it's better to have it as an addon. That makes it possible for things like safe-mode to disable the feature if there's a problem; it also makes it possible for Telemetry/Firefox Health Report/Crash Reporting to correlate problems against particular settings, instead of just having them as hidden settings.<div class="">
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The preference is now removed. Therefore telemetry which compiled in binary release use source code where is no such pref, and cant be measured it, right?<br>
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That is actually not correct. If somebody has changed the pref value, it will continue to be present in their prefs.js file "forever", even though we no longer read it in Firefox nor does it have a default value. So we could measure this after-the-fact if it was important enough.<br>
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Overall in this case, though, I don't think that's value, and I don't think the data collected would change our decision to remove support for the hidden pref.<br>
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