Mozilla Crosses 800,000 Filed Bugs

[Guest]

Mozilla's busy Firefox developer community submitted Bugzilla bug number 800,000 on October 10.

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[uglynerdman]

what?! over 9000?!

 

[rohitbaran]

A number not to be proud of I guess.

 

[mrmaia]

Well, at least Mozilla devs work hard to fix all those bugs and deliver a better free product to everyone, not to mention most of those bugs aren't critical anyway. It's completely different from another company, who blocks out all competitors only to release a hardly usable app in their overpriced smartphone.

 

[apple_120]

@rohitbaran, not quite what you think...

Mozilla tracks _ALL_ modifications in their bugzilla tracking system. So this is not just problems but also enhancements.

This also tracks work as diverse as creating new webpages, submitting and implementing standards and outreach to various websites.

It is simply a way for an organization that is extremely diffuse around the world to keep track of all the work going on. Truely impressive!

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]apple_120[/nom]This also tracks work as diverse as creating new webpages, submitting and implementing standards and outreach to various websites.[/citation]+1
I have submitted bug reports about Mozilla/Firefox not working with some web sites due to bad HTML or scripting. Many bugs are duplicates and some bugs only affect a specific user due to conflicting programs on their system (like malware).

 

[svdb]

It [citation][nom]rohitbaran[/nom]A number not to be proud of I guess.[/citation] It only matters how many bugs you fix, compared to how many are opened each period of time. One of the important metrics in software development is velocity, not quantity.

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]apple_120[/nom]@rohitbaran, not quite what you think...Mozilla tracks _ALL_ modifications in their bugzilla tracking system. So this is not just problems but also enhancements.This also tracks work as diverse as creating new webpages, submitting and implementing standards and outreach to various websites.It is simply a way for an organization that is extremely diffuse around the world to keep track of all the work going on. Truely impressive![/citation]
Oh, then it is indeed impressive.

 

[A Bad Day]

Two ways of improving a software:

1. Take the users' complaints seriously, and fix the bugs ASAP.

2. Deny. Deny. Deny.

 

[Guest]

I don't know is this something to brag about?

 

[pjmelect]

Why is it that all of the bugs I have seen with Firefox have never been fixed? I started reporting some of them but got little feedback so I don't bother any more.

 

[chewy1963]

This last release (16.1) seems pretty buggy, especially handling Flash but in other ways too. Much buggier (is that a word?) than the 15.x series. It's getting so I have to use Chrome more and more because of it.

 

[guardianangel42]

I switched to IE and Chrome for most of my browsing. I prefer Chrome from a usability standpoint, especially when closing multiple tabs, but it's made by Google, which basically means everything I do is being tracked and combined with marketing to better "target" my particular flavor of "never clicks on ads".

I don't like Firefox to be honest. Chief reason (before I spent enough time to figure it out) was its separation of the search and address bar and it's apparent inability to change the address bar's search engine. Now that I've figured that stuff out, I basically don't use it out of habit.