Site-Specific Preferences: Difference between revisions

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 == Motivation ==
-The primary purpose of this feature is to enable users to set and to persist preferences for certain core browser and content settings (f.e. text zoom, page style, and character encoding) that affect web page appearance and behavior for specific sites rather than merely for specific tabs or for the browsing session, since users often prefer certain values for these settings for specific sites and would like those preferences to persist across sessions and tabs.
+The primary purpose of this feature is to enable users to set preferences for certain core browser and content settings (f.e. text zoom, page style, and character encoding) on a site-specific rather than tab- or page-specific basis and to persist those preferences across page visits and browsing sessions.
+A secondary purpose is to provide a site-specific persistent datastore for preferences provided by extensions.
+For this feature, the words <em>setting</em> and <em>preference</em> are used as follows:
+; setting : a runtime configuration option that affects Firefox's appearance or behavior
+; preference: a user-defined value for a setting
 == Use Cases ==