Creating calendar fails with error about thunderbirthday HOT 11 CLOSED

Remove this line:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Default_Preferences

The actual file, despite having .js extension, is not a JavaScript file. You may not set variables inside of it, nor may do any kind of program flow control (ifs, loops etc.) nor even calculated values (i.e. 3600 * 24 * 5). Doing so will cause Mozilla to stop processing your preferences file without any notification, warning, error, or exception. Think of it more as an .ini file. Comments are perfectly acceptable.

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Thanks @ulln for the pointer! That did the trick :) Thanks everybody else for testing.

I created a new version. Once it has been reviewed, it should be available here.

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I have created a test version with .getIntPref("verbosity", 0);, but two users told me that that doesn't fix the problem. Can anyone confirm?

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Also, it seems like the problem also occurs on already-existing calendars.

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Could somebody who experiences the problem let me know what the configuration value of extensions.thunderbirthday.verbosity is? To do that, do the following:

1. Open the config editor as described here.
2. Type extensions.thunderbirthday.verbosity.
3. Report below what value and what type the entry has (if present).
4. Try to add it/change it to 0 of type integer and see whether the problem goes away.

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This seems to work for me (I had to remove the existing calendar and create a new one).

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@mbrohl You set it to 0? What was the value before? Not present I assume?

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Yes, it was not present and I set it to 0.

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Great, thanks for the confirmation! Meanwhile, another user has confirmed that this method works.

What I don't understand is why .getIntPref("verbosity", 0); does not work. Also, why isn't the value from user.js inserted at installation?

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I've had the same problem today after Thunderbirthday updated yesterday (Tbird 52.5.0 on Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon)
Adding "extensions.thunderbirthday.verbosity 0" as above has fully restored functionality.
Thank you.

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Oops, sorry about that. preferences/install.js still contains "use strict";, although it currently works fine here (the description string is displayed correctly, maybe because it is not retrieved programmatically?).

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