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13 year old Firefox bug

Post by shaundr » Tue, May 14, 2013, 9:24 PM UTC

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63895

Ran in to this for the 2nd time recently. Is firefox the new browser to work around? It's been working properly in IE for years.

Clear example: http://jsfiddle.net/YjHaB/9/

How is it that some bugs go neglected for this long?

Re: 13 year old Firefox bug

Post by mpyne » Tue, May 14, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

> How is it that some bugs go neglected for this long?

I think it's because no one fixed it yet.

Re: 13 year old Firefox bug

Post by artificialidiot » Tue, May 14, 2013, 11:48 PM UTC

> Wow you people are a mess. This bug has been around for 12 years!! are you kidding? It works in IE!!

Way to get volunteers to fix it.

Re: 13 year old Firefox bug

Post by sabbatic13 » Wed, May 15, 2013, 1:03 AM UTC

The last time I checked (ca. early 2012), there were tens of thousands of untriaged bugs in the Moz Bugzilla instance. Add to that unresolved bugs in the 3M+ lines code base and multiple platforms supported, and the job is obviously huge. There simply aren't enough people working on such things to keep up.

It is an open source project, so there is something that one can do about such things beyond complaining.

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