The bug was deliberately put there after he was born so he could fulfill the prophecy.
How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug
Submitted 1 year ago by bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Falafels@aussie.zone 1 year ago
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
From here out when a tooltip disappears, I will say it Zhu’d away.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.
“I just searched for ‘tooltip’ in the entire code base, examined stuff for possible candidates, and inserted debugging print statements to follow the execution,” Zhu wrote.
The timer would be canceled on a mouse-out event, which Firefox wasn’t getting when I used keyboard shortcuts to switch windows or virtual desktops."
Zhu pushed a commit that made tooltip display based on Firefox losing focus, rather than the mouse leaving the application.
Cobos Álvarez, who shepherded Zhu’s fix into a commit, wrote to us that “this area is rather tricky,” given various Firefox configurations and how they respond to different operating systems.
On social media, especially the Mastodon instances where you might expect to find people with opinions on Mozilla’s XML User Interface Language, there was much rejoicing.
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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
For fuck’s sake, this is actually the most annoying FF bug I’ve noticed and it is important for me!
You guys mean it’s been fixed now?
Wow.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, bitchboy, it is done.
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s been working on it since he was 1 👶
wraithcoop@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Makes sense, motivation is very powerful. It helps to also not be jaded from years of working in the area.
Sygheil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Prophecy fulfilled i guess.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a very interesting fix on a rare bug.
Can we get this guy to figure out why the fuck the URL rollover in the bottom left will not go away unless you shrink the video, roll onto a different link, then full screen the video again?
I’ve tried every change to userchrome.css that I can find and none of them fix it
bluemite@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you know if this is actually been reported as a bug? I’ve seen it myself, but just got annoyed and didn’t report it or anything.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a great question actually, I can’t find it as an outstanding bug, but Mozilla has multiple support articles on it leading me to wonder.
Do you have any suggestions on how I could search?
weedazz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now this is podracing!
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This bug has annoyed me plenty! Cheers to this kid!
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is what open source is all about: See a problem with your tool, fix it yourself, and everyone enjoys the improvements.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
And this is why devs don’t often focus on the minor issues. Haha. Good stuff.
Xanvial@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see that this is one of the negative of OSS instead. Seems a lot of people aware of this bug, but there’s no pressure to fix this until 22 years.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
Or: It’s such a minor bug that nobody really cared enough and they devoted time to other, more important things. But they made the choice as a collective and not a bunch of suits in a board room.
relevantnanana@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This take makes no sense.