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It's nothing new for Mozilla. This bug [1] about plugins capturing keys has been alive for more than 15 years now, even after getting 'major' importance level a

It's nothing new for Mozilla. This bug [1] about plugins capturing keys has been alive for more than 15 years now, even after getting 'major' importance level and 441 votes to fix it - which clearly shows they give little importance to these votes. Since it's one of the most annoying Firefox bugs ever and priorities are seemingly not assigned based on the advertised 'me too' votes, people resorted to writing their frustration in comments. What they did in return? They disabled comments on that thread as well, and then sat on the bug. There bureaucratic process turns off many contributors, and sometimes shows off the limitations of FOSS. Every other browser fixed that problem at one point of time, but Firefox still hasn't. New bugs for this issue are marked as duplicate of this and closed, and as a result, just get sunk into this black hole called issue 78414. P.S. - What's the funniest thing? The bug is still marked as 'NEW'. [1] : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414

PhantomGremlin 10y ago
This bug about plugins capturing keys has been alive for more than 15 years now Please, let's have some consideration for the hard working folks there. They're barely scraping by. They only have a paltry $300 million or so per year to spend, and that just doesn't go very far these days. http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo/ http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos... http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/mozilla-takes-300m-gamble-on-yahoo-to-reassert-its-independence.html http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/mozilla-takes-300m-gamb... I'm omitting the /s tag at end. It's really a crying shame that nobody at Mozilla cares all that much, despite literally spending several billion dollars developing Firefox.
orik 10y ago
I think the best thing users could probably do is some sort of social media campaign to boycott firefox until this is fixed, or for someone to fork firefox with this fixed and to get users to swap over to that for a while.
zerocrates 10y ago
By now anybody who'd otherwise be interested in fixing this one has seen the writing on the wall for NPAPI. On the bright side, it will therefore be fixed pretty soon.
piyush_soni 10y ago
And, you won't believe it ! With an almost magic like event, this 1.5 decade old bug was marked fixed today, after I wrote this comment!

PhantomGremlin 10y ago

This bug about plugins capturing keys has been alive for more than 15 years now Please, let's have some consideration for the hard working folks there. They're barely scraping by. They only have a paltry $300 million or so per year to spend, and that just doesn't go very far these days. http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo/ http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos... http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/mozilla-takes-300m-gamble-on-yahoo-to-reassert-its-independence.html http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/mozilla-takes-300m-gamb... I'm omitting the /s tag at end. It's really a crying shame that nobody at Mozilla cares all that much, despite literally spending several billion dollars developing Firefox.

orik 10y ago

I think the best thing users could probably do is some sort of social media campaign to boycott firefox until this is fixed, or for someone to fork firefox with this fixed and to get users to swap over to that for a while.

zerocrates 10y ago

By now anybody who'd otherwise be interested in fixing this one has seen the writing on the wall for NPAPI. On the bright side, it will therefore be fixed pretty soon.

piyush_soni 10y ago

And, you won't believe it ! With an almost magic like event, this 1.5 decade old bug was marked fixed today, after I wrote this comment!