{"id":1440,"date":"2005-08-12T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/edv\/050811-mozilla_bug_304118.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:07:41","slug":"making-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Making Mozilla."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I made my first direct contribution to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla Project<\/a>, the organization that programs and distributes my favorite browsers, <em>Camino<\/em> for Mac <abbr title=\"Operating System\">OS<\/abbr> X, and <em>Firefox<\/em> for most other platforms (<abbr title=\"America OnLine\">AOL<\/abbr>&#8216;s Netscape is also built upon the Mozilla sourcecode). I would have liked to contribute to this great open source project earlier, however, a lack of resources and programming skills made this difficult. Therefore I have so far only contributed by posting in related forums, voting for bugs that bugged my in particular, and generally spreading the word. Yesterday however, I was again annoyed by one of the quirks that sometimes make you frustrated \u2013 in this case is was the non-standard way of Camino&#8217;s bookmark export function. A vote for fixing this seemed to be in order. To my surprise several searches in the Mozilla&#8217;s bug database bugzilla (yes, I know) turned out nothing. After some gnawing of fingernails I decided to take the plunge and write my first bug report. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=304118\">Bug 304118 &#8211; improve export of menu spacer \/ bookmark separator<\/a>. I was crossing my fingers hoping not be told that this is an old hat, see bug number blablbabla. Seems my fears were unjustified: the bug was acknowledged (thanks Jasper!) and, to my utter astonishment, a fix has already been submitted!<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s a birthday present ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I made my first direct contribution to the Mozilla Project, the organization that programs and distributes my favorite browsers, Camino for Mac OS X, and Firefox for most other platforms (AOL&#8216;s Netscape is also built upon the Mozilla sourcecode). I would have liked to contribute to this great open source project earlier, however, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[30,297,272],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-browser","tag-camino","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}