Comments on: That Firefox 3 Bug "Rumor"

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:29:01 +0000

Tristan Nitot (president of Mozilla Europe) wrote an interesting article about those “bugs”. Bottom line : when you hear a developer talking about “bugs”, he might be talking about features, changes or tweaks to the program. Not necessarily the nasty and potentially dangerous bugs everyone thinks about. Read it here : http://standblog.org/blog/post.....-not-a-bug

That's a good point, as a developer myself I know I have done the same thing.

By: s427

s427 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:30:46 +0000

Tristan Nitot (president of Mozilla Europe) wrote an interesting article about those “bugs”. Bottom line : when you hear a developer talking about “bugs”, he might be talking about features, changes or tweaks to the program. Not necessarily the nasty and potentially dangerous bugs everyone thinks about. Read it here :

[standblog.org]

By: FireFox 3.0 Beta Released » Jeffro2pt0.com

FireFox 3.0 Beta Released » Jeffro2pt0.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:28:26 +0000

[...] It’s available in 21 different languages for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version still has hundreds of bugs in it. Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s Quality Assurance leader, did say that it is the “most thoroughly [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:17:59 +0000

Google wrote:

How many bugs does IE have?

There are probably a large amount of bugs in IE, but that was one of the things that I tried to stress in the article. When programs are not open source it is much easier for the community to criticize the progress, because they see it along every step of the way.

James wrote:

A lot of the regular testers believe the earliest Firefox 3.0 will be released is close to say March so it is not like they have only a couple weeks to fix all some 700 so called blockers.

Especially that the browser is essentially feature complete by this point. From now on out the focus is performance, bugs, and tidying up the existing features.

Cody wrote:

I would never return to IE after Firefox. Still I’m almost certain IE has less bugs than Firefox. The only reason I stay with Firefox is the speed and the use of extensions.

I'm skeptical of IE having less bugs than Firefox, especially after launching a completely redesigned browser the last time around. Big changes mean lots of bugs.

By: Cody

Cody — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:46:58 +0000

I would never return to IE after Firefox. Still I’m almost certain IE has less bugs than Firefox.

The only reason I stay with Firefox is the speed and the use of extensions.

By: James

James — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:27:22 +0000

Some people do not believe that there has been that many bug fixes behind the development of Firefox 3.0 already as because they are not willing to see for themselves or do not realize that Firefox 3.0 was already being worked on for sometime now while still on the Trunk (at least 15+ months). A lot of the regular testers believe the earliest Firefox 3.0 will be released is close to say March so it is not like they have only a couple weeks to fix all some 700 so called blockers. The devs are not the only ones that can fix the bugs as people who are familiar with certain parts and such can help submit patches that can be used or to get the ball rolling for a proper patch.

“”How many bugs does IE have?”"
A few million give or take 100,1000 …J/K ..MS does have the extra hurdle with IE being part of the OS though.

By: Google

Google — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:39:38 +0000

How many bugs does IE have?

By: M. E.

M. E. — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:58:10 +0000

TiKoZ wrote:

lol they’re kidding right? they expect people to just be okay with dealing with a buggy browser just because “it’s not IE” ? Mozilla is definitely on the wrong way here! And hey what did they do with all the Google money?! print those cool “spread firefox” tshirts :S ?

Read this: The Quality Assurance leader, Asa Dotzler, called Keizer’s claim “simply horseshit.” He said that they have “already fixed over 11,000 bugs and features in Firefox 3 and now we’re discussing how to handle the remaining 700 issues.“

By: TiKoZ

TiKoZ — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:59:08 +0000

lol they’re kidding right? they expect people to just be okay with dealing with a buggy browser just because “it’s not IE” ? Mozilla is definitely on the wrong way here!
And hey what did they do with all the Google money?! print those cool “spread firefox” tshirts :S ?