I'll never forget the first time I try Phoenix 0.1, all the way to Firefox 1.0, and still continue using it now with version 18 (Aurora).
You're such a browser hipster ;)
Eight Years of Firefox
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Re: Eight Years of Firefox
#22Eight years and 800,000 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000 Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.
800,000 reported bugs, not unfixed. Plus there are a lot of duplicates, invalid and similar.
Re: Eight Years of Firefox
#23Eight years and 800,000 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000 Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.
Mozilla bugzilla has reached bug id 800000. Mozilla typically file a bug for every actionable item, not just defects; the number of non-bogus, non-duplicate, non-feature-request, non-tracking-bug, and non-firefox-bugs (website, thunderbird, all other products since inception) will be much, much fewer.
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#24I like firefox a lot, it's the browser I use almost all of the time. I really like the way firefox allows me to sync bookmarks across devices. I really like the fireftp add on. I don't like the way firefox makes me wait sometimes while it updates. It's really hard to figure out some things. One time I accidentally forgot to press the tab key after entering my username on log-in and entered my password in the username…
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whoa! thanks.
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#25Thanks for informing it has been 8 years I used this product, I think the longest of any other leaving aside my OS. It was hard parting ways few weeks ago but it was done and now I don't regret.
Good luck for your future.
Re: Eight Years of Firefox
#26Eight years and 800,000 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000 Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.
Not sarcastic. The only bug-free software is software that has no users.[1] A well-fed bug tracker is one of those Good Problems To Have.
[1] With the exception of http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Re: Eight Years of Firefox
#27I remember making the jump from Netscape 4.72 to Mozilla 1.2, modulo a little dalliance with IE when it was still ahead of the curve. I've been on Mozilla/Firefox ever since, and never made the jump to Chrome as my main browser (though I have it installed). Firefox just keeps getting better and better, and I'm delighted at how the friendly competition between Firefox and Chrome is driving faster improvement to both,…
Ah, Netscape! I still have its throbber animation[1] indelibly burnt into my memory.
I also still remember being a bit baffled as to all the excitement people were expressing over something as mundane as a web browser. Remember the full-spread two-page launch ad in the New York Times?[2] Firefox was probably the first time I'd ever heard of something "open source" in my entire life. And of course, tabbed browsing was love at first sight.
[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/about-nscp-anim.gif
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.html
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#28I think Firefox has to take a lot of credit for the state of the web today. In the early 2000s, it was usual for sites to be IE-only, or to be horribly broken in any alternative browser. It seems to me that the rise of popularity of Firefox correlated strongly with a drop in these IE-only sites, and I don't think that its unfair to label it as a dominant cause of this drop. Even if Firefox dies completely and leaves behind only Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE in its wake, I think it's still fair to call it a great victory for open standards and open source.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.
Mozilla bugzilla has reached bug id 800000. Mozilla typically file a bug for every actionable item, not just defects; the number of non-bogus, non-duplicate, non-feature-request, non-tracking-bug, and non-firefox-bugs (website, thunderbird, all other products since inception) will be much, much fewer.
Yes, this. There have been 800,000 bugs filed for all groups within Mozilla. We use bugzilla for managing projects and tasks (ex: a request for the Firefox 8th birthday cake graphic in the blog post). It's not just for tracking Firefox bugs. We use it for just about everything.
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#30Firebox's firebug addon makes it worth the price of admission. Thanks for a great 8 years FF! Side note: if you could add support for base64 pngs embedded with the data uri you could really help me out of a jam...
File a bug to request that :) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/