Phoenix ignoring advanced.system.supportDDEExec?

Kemayo · Post by **Kemayo** » February 11th, 2003, 12:34 pm

I've just noticed that Phoenix is reusing active browser windows, despite my having this in my user.js:

user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);

Going into about:config doesn't show that preference anywhere. I'm using the 20030206 nightly -- anyone else noticed this?

SilentJ · Post by **SilentJ** » February 11th, 2003, 12:51 pm

i have it in my prefs.js on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Phoenix/0.5 build, it works fine for me

-J

Kemayo · Post by **Kemayo** » February 11th, 2003, 12:55 pm

I'll just try upgrading and see if that fixes it.

EDIT: It did.

Post by **alanjstr** » February 11th, 2003, 1:44 pm

I think you have it backwards. I think you want to set it to true. I have mine set to False to make it use the same window.

Kemayo · Post by **Kemayo** » February 11th, 2003, 1:47 pm

Phoenix Help says otherwise... http://texturizer.net/phoenix/tips.html#beh_reuse

Post by **alanjstr** » February 11th, 2003, 1:49 pm

Well, why don't you try it. David T could happen to be wrong.

Kemayo · Post by **Kemayo** » February 11th, 2003, 1:50 pm

Because it had been working fine with no window-reuse for upwards of a month prior to this. :-D

Post by **djst** » February 11th, 2003, 3:19 pm

alanjstr wrote:Well, why don't you try it. David T could happen to be wrong.

I'm not. Using DDE means that a browser window is reused by receiving a DDE window message. Disabling it causes Phoenix to open new windows instead.

Post by **alanjstr** » February 11th, 2003, 3:56 pm

Like I said, I've always had it set to false. Maybe I'll take it out and see if it's just TBE now.

Kemayo · Post by **Kemayo** » February 13th, 2003, 1:51 pm

And... it just started reusing windows again. No idea why - I was just in the middle of browsing.

about:config shows the pref set as false. A restart hasn't fixed it. I'm confused here.

Anyone have any suggestions about why it's losing the effect of this setting? (I'm using 20030211 on WinXP Home SP1, if that helps...)

EDIT: Creating a new profile and adding the appropriate line to its user.js doesn't make it work properly in that profile.