Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

FINALLY! I have been bitten by this bug several times; it also applied to CSS properties involving table layouts (cell, etc.), which I used to be a heavy user of. Glad to see it fixed!

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by supriyo-biswas » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:43 AM UTC

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #2

I wish Android/Google would close old bugs too... like the intentionally-not-implemented ad-hoc wifi

Do people even use ad-hoc mode these days? The only places where I’ve seen this even mentioned was on old Nokia smart phones and networking textbooks.

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by chrismorgan » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 2:09 AM UTC

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #5

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #2

I wish Android/Google would close old bugs too... like the intentionally-not-implemented ad-hoc wifi

Do people even use ad-hoc mode these days? The only places where I’ve seen this even mentioned was on old Nokia smart phones and networking textbooks.

There have been a few occasions in the last decade when I would have if only Android supported it.

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by bgirard » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 2:12 AM UTC

Apreche wrote: post #3

Does that mean I have to wait 20 more years for this one to be fixed? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1806237

What makes you think those bugs are correlated?

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by owl57 » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 2:20 AM UTC

I recently found out that this one got closed as well: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/470

> Opened 18 years ago

> Closed 9 months ago

I'm fascinated by projects that are so stable that specific issues remain relevant for this long, and at the same time persistently active, so that someone eventually steps up and fixes those issues.

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by arrty88 » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:16 AM UTC

now i will use FF!

Re: Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox

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Post by cykros » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 12:14 PM UTC

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #5

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #2

I wish Android/Google would close old bugs too... like the intentionally-not-implemented ad-hoc wifi

Do people even use ad-hoc mode these days? The only places where I’ve seen this even mentioned was on old Nokia smart phones and networking textbooks.

That they don't seems to have as much to do with Android not supporting it as anything. Being able to send messages locally without going through any surveillance checks would be a godsend for protest movements, which may well have something to do with why Google hasn't included it as an option.

It's useful for mesh networking too. We get used to Internet being available everywhere here in places with solid infrastructure but I imagine being able to use ad-hoc would be helpful in a place like, say Gaza. There are tools that help these situations, such as Briar or SSB, but something at layer 2 would allow for a lot more functionality.