While making the “Set as Desktop Background” feature work on Windows CE, I accidentally broke it on other Windows systems. OOOOOPS.
This went unnoticed for ~3 weeks on the nightlies! It was even in Firefox 3.6 alpha 1. The fix was easy and was checked into trunk today. It’ll be checked into the Firefox 3.6 branch soon.
I don’t think mistakes like that are too uncommon, especially in areas where testing isn’t automated. We probably have Litmus tests for this so it would have been caught before a final release anyway, but still…
This just goes to show how important testing is! (And yes, I filed a bug to add tests here)
This also goes to show just how little people use that feature :)
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Goes to show you how little people use the alphas.
:-D
Do we even need Set as Desktop Background at all, given that little use?
I’ve found that when I ask people if it is worth shipping the large monitor images they tend to say “the what?”
Funny. I tried this after I installed Win7 and it didn’t work. I blamed win 7, saved the file to desktop and it worked. Sorry for not reporting!!
Well there where some in the Mozillazine Nightly Thread that found this issue. I guess that the info about the Bug originated from there?
-By the Way, isn’t it somehow strange that the most active Userbase (apart Devs) that are testing Nightlys, are discussing and double-checking their findings on Mozillazine, which does not belong to Mozilla? If you think you found a new Bug or some strange behaviour, the only thing you can do is file a Bug. With Bugzilla, that is nothing really easy to do, nor will the Bug ever be touched if you did it not well enough! I suppose if you do not hang around Mozillazine often, you simply are NOT going to file a Bug. I suppose there where a lot more people that saw this Bug than you would think.
I said it often, but IMHO there is something missing between “normal” Users that have a strong guess they found a Bug (so nothing for SUMO) and Bugzilla/Devs. IRC etc. are imho to unsure/complicated.
2 Things come to my mind:
1. A forum where a Dev. (or a person close to the Devs) reads through the Posts, gives News/Hints and takes word of this and that to the Devs.
2. Connect Bugzilla with a Wiki/Forum! You know the chatter on some Bugs, Mozilla wants to be open, so don’t prohibit this chatter, instead give it a place where it belongs. Look at Wikis, Bugzilla also could have a separate Discussion “Tab” for every Bug. If something in the Discussion turns out to be valuable, simply copy it to the real Bug-Entry…
Sorry for this long Entry ;) but thats part of the problem, who at Mozilla is “responsible” for such suggestions…