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Change the "Manual" browser command pref's name to allow for a relatively simple migration of an existing value from the path pref to the new string pref. As I note in the comment in the migration code, I realize this will break things for and confuse those users who use the same config directory for mutliple versions of Pidgin, but I'm not inclined to devise a solution that will make that work. The solution I've implemented fixes the most important case--users who upgrade. The rest of the world will just have to move on. Refs #12024.

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