Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by claviska » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
bugzilla.mozilla.org

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by johnea » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

I'm still holding hope that thunderbird will actually fetch mail into folders without having to click on them...

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by izoow » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

I wish the bug where the copy option is randomly greyed out even though there is text to copy got finally fixed. It's been driving me insane.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by yownie » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

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Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by eddd-ddde » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

Hoping they do XDG next. Also been waiting for 20 years [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by paol » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

Ha! 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!

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by mmastrac » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

Firefox's Bugzilla is certainly one of the oldest running bug trackers. I'm impressed at how much of the original feel of the bug tracker is still around after all these revisions. It was a pretty hairy, monstrous codebase back in the day.

At one point in 2000 (?) I stood up an instance in our Windows dev shop to replace a home-grown bugtracker built on Microsoft Access/Outlook. It was complex but pretty much one of the best-of-breed bugtrackers for some time. I think that FogBugz was just getting started around then, and those guys were one of the first teams to really consider user experience.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by mg » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:11 PM UTC

The 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.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by _ink_ » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:15 PM UTC

That's awesome! 28-03-2000 is not 25 years ago, tho.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

_ink_ wrote: post #9

That's awesome! 28-03-2000 is not 25 years ago, tho.

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