Textareas are so overlooked, they feel really like 1990s, yet there is no real alternative with spellchecking and os integration.
Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
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Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#62Why so many posts about Firefox bugs getting fixed after N years? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firefox+bug+years
I think people are amazed and impressed that bugs more than 6 months old aren't just auto-closed with "There's been several new versions since this bug was filed, please check if this still exists on the latest version, and if so file a new bug."
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#63The one long term open bug that irks me the most is that you cannot properly date-format the x-axis of scatter plots in LibreOffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54132 12 years old. According to the comments, fixing it is discouraged as the code is so "horribly complicated", it would likely cause regressions.
This does not bode well for my hopes of LibreOffice getting my favorite features from Excel.
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#64Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn't exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator. Don't remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or something. Got the occasional email notification about it over the years, always got a chuckle out of it. Then a couple of days ago, lo and behold, it was fixed!
I find it amazing that your subscription to that bug thread survived all those years. Wow!
I have a few bugs that are almost ready to go off to college, and I get an email about once a year from various machinations involving them.
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany uses DD.MM.YY(YY). Dashes are for weirdos like me, and only for ISO dates, never DD-MM-YYYY.
> Germany uses DD.MM.YY(YY) And I assume this is the usual one in Europe in general for a human-readable context, like within a sentence. And as you said, dashes only in YYYY-MM-DD which is hopefully used always in any data context.
Never really seen it in several European countries
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#66Off topic but I really dislike the trend of using “human readable durations” like “a month ago”, just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself. Outlook (Mac version at least) is the worst offender. For emails prior to the current day it will say for example just “yesterday” and it will only show you the time if you click on the email. I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages…
Hover over the date to see the exact day and time.
Hover? I'm on mobile...
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#67BugBot was on to something: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654#c190
"The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 27 duplicates, 103 votes and 91 CCs. :emilio, could you consider increasing the bug severity?
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Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#68Off topic but I really dislike the trend of using “human readable durations” like “a month ago”, just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself. Outlook (Mac version at least) is the worst offender. For emails prior to the current day it will say for example just “yesterday” and it will only show you the time if you click on the email. I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages…
Even worse when it's wrong, Discogs insists that October 2021 is "over three years ago"
Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
#69On a related note, starting today, I noticed that x.com (fka Twitter.com) is no longer working in Firefox.
I get the following error:
> Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
> Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com