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Re:After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to vie... by akkartik on Thursday December 29, 2011 @12:35AM (#3402671)
"It is absolutely conceivable that a lot of the people already working on Firefox simply never thought of adding line numbers.."

The bug was opened in 2004.

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Re:After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to vie... by skore on Thursday December 29, 2011 @06:20AM (#3403295)
"...line numbers to the view source (as mentioned elsewhere, you CAN see the linenumber already, just not constantly on the side) and having the suggestion come up from the community is already a valuable asset.".

In 2004 it was the same developer-focussed feature that it is today. I suppose it's only that today, the community is more concerned with developers and back then, people didn't mind as much. I still don't, as an n=1 example.

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