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This change in behaviour has some important consequences: | This change in behaviour has some important consequences: | ||
* Any pref panel is loaded only once, hence its potential Startup() method doesn't need to care for reentrancy or persisting data over panel changes. | * Any pref panel is loaded only once, hence its potential Startup() method doesn't need to care for reentrancy or persisting data over panel changes. | ||
* In v6, ''nsWidgetStateManager.js'' and ''nsPrefWindow.js'' are obsolete and replaced by several bindings in ''preferences.xml''. | |||
* Any <script>s in a panel's XUL will be loaded into the main preference window (not into the panel!), hence their globals and methods are likely to clash! | * Any <script>s in a panel's XUL will be loaded into the main preference window (not into the panel!), hence their globals and methods are likely to clash! | ||
And preference panels are called "panes" in v6. | |||
== How to migrate a preference panel == | == How to migrate a preference panel == | ||