Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Arrrrgh! Son of "Lather, rinse, repeat."
I know a replicable bug when I see one, and I like the Pulver/Lennon/McCartney dictum that the love you take is equal to the love you make. So when I tried three times to copy text from a certain Web page viewed in Firefox and paste it into email in the Mac's default mail client, and each time Firefox hung, requiring a force-quit, restart, I thought I'd be a good citizen and report it.
So I found bugzilla on the Firefox support page. I created an account - argh. I read the tutorial - arrgh. I entered the information using their guided bug reporting wizard. Then I hit the submit button, and it said "Error, Bugzilla failed due to blah, blah, blah. Submit your bug report to . . . " Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
If anybody would like to try to replicate this, try copying the last paragraph on this page.-- a pretty interesting story, btw, and paste it into an email you're creating. (The Firefox auto-copy feature was enabled, dunno if this matters.) Then call up somebody at Mozilla Foundation -- on the conventional, circuit-switched telephone system -- and TELL them.
So I found bugzilla on the Firefox support page. I created an account - argh. I read the tutorial - arrgh. I entered the information using their guided bug reporting wizard. Then I hit the submit button, and it said "Error, Bugzilla failed due to blah, blah, blah. Submit your bug report to . . . " Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
If anybody would like to try to replicate this, try copying the last paragraph on this page.-- a pretty interesting story, btw, and paste it into an email you're creating. (The Firefox auto-copy feature was enabled, dunno if this matters.) Then call up somebody at Mozilla Foundation -- on the conventional, circuit-switched telephone system -- and TELL them.
Comments:
David
fwiw - I can copy/paste from that site from Firefox into Thunderbird on a Win98SE system without any problems so it must be a Firefox on Mac issue or something local to your system.
Doug Alder
http://www.thealders.net/blogs/
fwiw - I can copy/paste from that site from Firefox into Thunderbird on a Win98SE system without any problems so it must be a Firefox on Mac issue or something local to your system.
Doug Alder
http://www.thealders.net/blogs/
# posted by 
: 1/25/2005 8:33 PM
: 1/25/2005 8:33 PM
fwiw David, on a Mac, I can also cut and paste that paragraph from Firefox to a Thunderbird, or Mac Mail, message.
But I'm really interested in what you discover the problem to be. I think we've crossed over some usability line with systems today, and not in a useful direction.
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But I'm really interested in what you discover the problem to be. I think we've crossed over some usability line with systems today, and not in a useful direction.
