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Re:Firefox 73 by bambax on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:08PM (#22300096)
What's the point of spending time on that?? Some bugs have been open for a very long time that don't appear to have been fixed in this release [0]... but we can select a background color in the console????

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220696

Re:Firefox 73 by plorkyeran on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:15PM (#22300183)
Making the console appearance customizable sounds like an easy starter project for onboarding someone. Your pet bug does not.

The severity of a bug is far from the only thing which determines what gets worked on.

Re:Firefox 73 by kbenson on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:25PM (#22300313)
The point is it's open source, so people will volunteer to work on what they want. Just because the bugs you cared about weren't worked on doesn't mean this work took any resources away that could have been applied to them.
Re:Firefox 73 by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:44PM (#22303237)
Yes, but presumably Moz with their $300M from Google, or whatever it is (pretty sure it's of that order) also surely employ a few programmers to squash bugs, so just waving your hand and saying "volunteer developers" doesn't quite answer the parent commenters dissatisfaction.
Re:Firefox 73 by floriol on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:26PM (#22313488)
And they so squash bugs? Yeah there def some old ones, but a priority was chosen for them and work continuous based on that.
Re:Firefox 73 by digitarald on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:13PM (#22300889)
Text input is a priority but also hard to align on is complex, potentially risky, work.

Console log background was worked on by a contributor as its a good first bug.