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by nikanj 1173 days ago
The biggest surprise for me was Microsoft actually fixing it.
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Is that because you don't expect programmers in general to fix their bugs? Or do you think Microsoft in particular don't care about their products?
Because once a corporation grows larger than some singularity threshold, there seems to be a bug event horizon where all bug reports just disappear.

Send a bug report to a five-person software company, their lead dev contacts you the same day and has a patched version ready to go in a week. Send a bug report to Microsoft / Citrix / Apple / etc, and you'll never hear back.

They said that Microsoft was already in progress of changing the offending code before Mozilla report.