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Mozilla Project Turns 5

Posted by timothy on from the child-prodigy dept.

GreyWolf3000 writes "As this notice in tinderbox shows, Mozilla turns five years old today. A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use. The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4. Can't wait to see what's in store next!" Read on for another odometer reading -- Mozilla's 200,000th bug report, perhaps just as auspicious a landmark.

zzxc writes "The 200,000th bug has been filed in Mozilla's bugzilla, MozillaZine reports. It was filed at 5:11pm EDT. (21:11GMT) The bug, which is already 'verified invalid,' is 'MailNews crashes after extremely long 'joke of the day' html spam mail.' This comes on the 5 year anniversery of the release of Netscape's source code, also reported by MozillaZine. Bug 100000 was opened on 9/16/01 after three years of development, while bug 200000 comes in less than 19 months from the previous milestone."

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  1. Wow... by zzzmarcus · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's only 109 bugs a day! Just goes to show you open source software IS less buggy than commercial!

  2. Don't forget.... by I_am_Rambi · · Score: 3, Funny

    The kitchen sink that is now also included in Mozilla. Story here.

  3. Which makes me...uh-oh... by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    It seems like it was just yesterday I was sitting at this desk, reading about it on Slashdot (Over 50 comments! Wow, Taco, your site has really taken off!).

    Ohmigod, where the hell has my life gone?!?!?!?!?!? I'm still even using the same freaking monitor!

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  4. Slow progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    5 years and they haven't even reached 1.4? In 5 years Microsoft went from 3.0 to 95. Pick up the pace, people.

    1. Re:Slow progress by Misch · · Score: 2, Funny

      But where was the improvement? At least Mozilla got better. ;-)

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  5. Also Al Gores B-Day by Dajur · · Score: 3, Funny

    He must have invented mozilla to celebrate.

  6. Re:Sweepstake Winner by nogoodmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    1st: 2003-04-01 00:00:01 bradangelcyk@hotmail.com (10 hrs, 50 mins)

    Woohoo! I won, but *sigh* how much spam am I going to get now?

  7. We'll can continue using Mozilla going forward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny



    Computing power doubles every 18 months? Is that the correct quote by the Intel dude?

    Thanks to the increasing computing power, and the 4 GB memory chips coming out, we'll be able to continue using Mozilla for a while.

    I was worried about nothing. Phewww!

  8. Bugzilla must be 32-bit by mrm677 · · Score: 3, Funny

    At my previous job at a Fortune-100 company, the proprietary bug database we used kept track of the Bug ID with an unsigned 16-bit number.

    Yep, to the surprise and dismay of many, we overflowed at bug# 65537

  9. The Last Known Bug is dead.! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Long live the Last Known Bug!
  10. So that's it.. by destiney · · Score: 2, Funny


    The truth is out now.. Mozilla was originally an April Fool's Joke? But on who? M$?

    Hehe..

  11. Re:Wishing Mozilla well... by adamruck · · Score: 2, Funny

    why does vimacs come to mind?

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