On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:42:35PM +0200, C.S. wrote:
>  Why are nsIMIMEInfo's cloned when retrieving them from the mime
>  service ?

They aren't... they are newly created. I guess that amounts to the same
from your point of view :)

>  This forces us to write 1000's lines of code just to
>  programmaticaly change prefs for a handler (like it's done in
>  chrome://communicator/content/pref/overrideHandler.js).

well, even if nsIMIMEService handed out the same nsIMIMEInfo each time
you ask it, that probably wouldn't help you, since the changed handler
would not persist across a mozilla restart.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190413 might interest you

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