bugzilla.mozilla.org— This woman doesn't understand how Windows/Firefox profiles work and leaves her fiance of 5 years after finding info about dating sites he visited. Then she then files a bug about it on Bugzilla.
Mar 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
So she points out the bug so that Mozilla fixes it and that way some other guy can more successfully cheat on his GF/wife. Good one. Knowing her luck, she will meet another guy who does the same thing with the fixed version of Firefox.
Good lord. Doesn't the guy's infidelity seem to be the more obvious cause for the demise of the relationship? How is this Firefox's fault for not respecting his privacy? I take this to mean she has no problem with him being a schmuck, as long as she doesn't know about it. Weirdos.
It's not really clear that she was in fact using 2 seperate profiles. If she actually was, then yes this info should also be seperate. But there is a huge amount of assuming going on here. 1) Assuming that he 100% never ever used her account to get to these sites. 2) Assuming they did actually use seperate profiles.3) Assuming that this is a bad thing, meaning her relationship.I think a more accurate title would be "FireFox saves woman from marrying a potential cheater". She should be thanking FireFox. Sure it sucks to have 5 years worth of a relationship gone because of it, but IMO it's better than continuing and getting cheated on.
it is to my understanding that setting a Master Password would have avoided this confrontation. I just tried it. I went to the password manager on my Firefox and without any prompts other than a "are you sure" message, it allowed me to see every one of my saved passwords in my remembered password list. Jesus christ, talk about obvious. HOWEVER, I set a Master Password for Firefox, and access to either remembered passwords or never saved passwords was denied by the Input Master Password Prompt. Of course, never forget your Master Password.Mozilla DEFINITELY should have warned about the easy ability to retrieve your passwords unless otherwise halted by the Master Password.
When you read the first sentence of the description field and it contains a dishonest statement, you know a troubled web of logic and/or assertions of facts lies ahead.Either the guy was cheating, and the girl would know it - and it is his fault, plain and simple. Or, he wasn't cheating, she did not want to hear it and they had a disagreement - and one or both of them decided not to stay together. Either way, saying an inanimate passive object caused them to break up is delusional.He is doing stuff on the computer, she sneaks up on him at night, he hurriedly delete a program - how is it those events didn't contribute to the breakup? Because citing them really didn't contribute much to the bug report!Following the reproduce steps is futile anyway. In Comment #3 "she" says that her boyfriend (code-name "Joe") was using Firefox on her account initially. They did not create his separate account until later!!When she installed a Firefox on her account once again, that Firefox did not know she was a different "person". It knew someone on the same account was installing Firefox again and so of course would not throw away the settings. Same account means same user. Despite its animal name - it doesn't identify users by scent! It does it by the user account they are on. If Firefox didn't pick up your settings when you install Firefox, you could never install a new version of Firefox without losing all your bookmarks and everything else.Reproduce steps say to start off with two separate accounts, and that is not what happened in this case. Reproduce steps are supposed to describe what was done to create the problem. Not be a fundamentally different sequence of events.Fallacious problem description, invalid reproduce steps - the "bug" report is just twisted.This has got to be the pinnacle of how NOT to write a bug report, how NOT to do a controlled test case on a machine+program starting in a known state, and how NOT to manage a relationship.I guess if boyfriend buys a pair of scissors off of Amazon with Firefox this weekend, and then uses them to cut off his ear in an under-appreciated effort to win her back - that will be Firefox's fault too.Maybe that will be the subject of the next bug report. Twenty-five more like this one and there will be enough to produce a TV series.
The scissors would be Amazon's fault, for selling potential weapons... although I could see how you could swing that the scissors were bought on amazon using firefox.btw, I love this line - "Despite its animal name - it doesn't identify users by scent! It does it by the user account they are on. "great stuff.
Good point X-Cruciating, but just because your spouse clicked an ad going to <a class="user" href="http://www.catchhimkeephimreview.com/">http://www.catchhimkeephimreview.com/</a> or whatever doesn't mean they're cheating. Maybe they're just unhappy with the relationship, and it's time to have a serious talk about improving things. Jumping to conclusions isn't the right thing to do, yes it's a big red flag but it doesn't necessarily mean the relationship can't be salvaged - if things aren't too far gone yet.
setecMar 22, 2006
So she points out the bug so that Mozilla fixes it and that way some other guy can more successfully cheat on his GF/wife. Good one. Knowing her luck, she will meet another guy who does the same thing with the fixed version of Firefox.
gmailgeoffMar 22, 2006
Good lord. Doesn't the guy's infidelity seem to be the more obvious cause for the demise of the relationship? How is this Firefox's fault for not respecting his privacy? I take this to mean she has no problem with him being a schmuck, as long as she doesn't know about it. Weirdos.
clickwirMar 22, 2006
It's not really clear that she was in fact using 2 seperate profiles. If she actually was, then yes this info should also be seperate. But there is a huge amount of assuming going on here. 1) Assuming that he 100% never ever used her account to get to these sites. 2) Assuming they did actually use seperate profiles.3) Assuming that this is a bad thing, meaning her relationship.I think a more accurate title would be "FireFox saves woman from marrying a potential cheater". She should be thanking FireFox. Sure it sucks to have 5 years worth of a relationship gone because of it, but IMO it's better than continuing and getting cheated on.
neilmMar 23, 2006
it is to my understanding that setting a Master Password would have avoided this confrontation. I just tried it. I went to the password manager on my Firefox and without any prompts other than a "are you sure" message, it allowed me to see every one of my saved passwords in my remembered password list. Jesus christ, talk about obvious. HOWEVER, I set a Master Password for Firefox, and access to either remembered passwords or never saved passwords was denied by the Input Master Password Prompt. Of course, never forget your Master Password.Mozilla DEFINITELY should have warned about the easy ability to retrieve your passwords unless otherwise halted by the Master Password.
loucypherMar 23, 2006
Please read what the bug is all about before writing comments. It's not about viewing your saved passwords.
johnnysoftwareMar 28, 2006
When you read the first sentence of the description field and it contains a dishonest statement, you know a troubled web of logic and/or assertions of facts lies ahead.Either the guy was cheating, and the girl would know it - and it is his fault, plain and simple. Or, he wasn't cheating, she did not want to hear it and they had a disagreement - and one or both of them decided not to stay together. Either way, saying an inanimate passive object caused them to break up is delusional.He is doing stuff on the computer, she sneaks up on him at night, he hurriedly delete a program - how is it those events didn't contribute to the breakup? Because citing them really didn't contribute much to the bug report!Following the reproduce steps is futile anyway. In Comment #3 "she" says that her boyfriend (code-name "Joe") was using Firefox on her account initially. They did not create his separate account until later!!When she installed a Firefox on her account once again, that Firefox did not know she was a different "person". It knew someone on the same account was installing Firefox again and so of course would not throw away the settings. Same account means same user. Despite its animal name - it doesn't identify users by scent! It does it by the user account they are on. If Firefox didn't pick up your settings when you install Firefox, you could never install a new version of Firefox without losing all your bookmarks and everything else.Reproduce steps say to start off with two separate accounts, and that is not what happened in this case. Reproduce steps are supposed to describe what was done to create the problem. Not be a fundamentally different sequence of events.Fallacious problem description, invalid reproduce steps - the "bug" report is just twisted.This has got to be the pinnacle of how NOT to write a bug report, how NOT to do a controlled test case on a machine+program starting in a known state, and how NOT to manage a relationship.I guess if boyfriend buys a pair of scissors off of Amazon with Firefox this weekend, and then uses them to cut off his ear in an under-appreciated effort to win her back - that will be Firefox's fault too.Maybe that will be the subject of the next bug report. Twenty-five more like this one and there will be enough to produce a TV series.
Closed AccountApr 12, 2006
The scissors would be Amazon's fault, for selling potential weapons... although I could see how you could swing that the scissors were bought on amazon using firefox.btw, I love this line - "Despite its animal name - it doesn't identify users by scent! It does it by the user account they are on. "great stuff.
starlight7Jun 14, 2009
Double post...
starlight7Jun 14, 2009
Good point X-Cruciating, but just because your spouse clicked an ad going to <a class="user" href="http://www.catchhimkeephimreview.com/">http://www.catchhimkeephimreview.com/</a> or whatever doesn't mean they're cheating. Maybe they're just unhappy with the relationship, and it's time to have a serious talk about improving things. Jumping to conclusions isn't the right thing to do, yes it's a big red flag but it doesn't necessarily mean the relationship can't be salvaged - if things aren't too far gone yet.