When I got the heads-up from Josh and Duncan that the beta of Firefox 3 was now available, what put a twinkle in my eye was that Mozilla has fixed 11,000 issues with this release. I could not believe it, but here is the info directly from the source:Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues.
My first reaction was "How great and wonderful Mozilla is for giving us such a vastly improved product!" This was followed 2 seconds later by "Yikes! My most used application and the product my company has hitched our wagon to has at least 11,000 known issues!"
My next thought was "How great and wonderful the Mozilla test team must be for finding that many bugs and driving them to resolution." I doubt I've found anywhere near 11,000 bugs in my career, and I've been a software tester since long it was cool and hip. Even if these issues have been accumulating over the last 27 months, that is more than 10 bugs a day - and that is just the ones they fixed.
I then came to the conclusion that Mozilla actually has hundreds of millions of the best kind of testers - free ones - aka users. That is the only way they could find, track, and fix 11,000 bugs - with a strong and active community. So, my final thought was "How great and wonderful the Mozilla community is for finding and reporting all these bugs!" Mozilla should buy them 11,000 beers.
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1 comments:
No, Firefox 3 has had major architectural work done, so lots of those bugs were follow-up work from those. In addition, lots of those 11,000 bugs were feature additions, etc. Important security and stability fixes get ported to Firefox 2, and that's why you get security updates!
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