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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: Fixing Firefox's "find in page"
  • Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:22:56 -0800

Quoting Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:
<snip>
> As I understand it compreg.dat is a cache which includes information on
> things like the extensions you built with. You want to remove it because
> your previous build had typeaheadfind in it, and the cache retains that
> info.
>
> Removing this is completely non-destructive to the user experience as far
> as I can tell. It doesn't contain your settings or anything like that. In
> my own builds after removing that file firefox still started with all my
> configs, themes, and downloaded extensions intact.

I'm leary of removing files (no matter how "safe" they seem) from /home/*.
Perhaps just a warning message telling the user what to do?

-sandalle

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