Re: Preliminary 'wip-78' branch pushed to Savannah.

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Amin,

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

> I should point out that setting "browser.search.modernConfig" to false
> does not seem to be a future-proof solution: per [0], Mozilla recently
> dropped support for it, which means it will most likely not be available
> in the next ESR release.
>
> [0]: Remove legacy search configuration code and the preference
>      (modernConfig = false): <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1619926>
>
> I did some digging and found the meta issue for this [1], but I have not
> had a close enough look at it to know concretely how the new mechanism
> works and how we are to dance to make it happy.
>
> [1]: [meta] Modernize the search engine configuration and its
>      management: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1542235>

Of course, it would be good at some point to adapt our customizations to
make them more likely to work with the next ESR release, but for now I
think we should stay focused on what needs to be done in the next couple
of weeks :)

      Mark