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>I don’t know how many people this bug affects (anyone with 200-300 icons is hitting a modest version of this, and it gets progressively worse with more) and I

>I don’t know how many people this bug affects (anyone with 200-300 icons is hitting a modest version of this, and it gets progressively worse with more) and I have no power to fix it. So, I filed a bug. I am not hopeful that it will be fixed. My last quadratic-in-Windows bug has had zero comments since it was filed a few months ago. At some point I realized that there is a sweet spot when it comes to software largesse, and it's way below the most popular applications. Using popular apps like Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Fedora, Debian, etc., I don't have a snowball's chance in a hot place at even getting my issue looked at... by anyone. I'm lucky if my bug report gets a WONTFIX -- after I spend an hour filling out some elaborate bug report form which makes a tax form look easy. However, once I started using less popular software, browsers and GNU distros which only have hundreds or thousands of users, I get way more attention. I may even get as fortunate as a developer (!) holding my hand through an issue and fixing a bug on the spot, probably from just asking a question on IRC. It's a luxury which not everyone can afford, requiring both having technical knowledge and being willing to get my hands dirty. But the quality of experience I get in the end is so much better and more stable than anything else I experienced in the past.

nightcracker 6y ago
At least in Firefox this doesn't appear to be true, at least not always. Recently I noticed that on my main PC, if I have uBlock Origin enabled, all network requests are delayed significantly. So I made a bug report on uBlock Origin's Github. They couldn't find the issue and they eventually asked if I could try it with another ad-blocking addon, and sure enough, the same bug. So the issue was with Firefox, not a specific addon. So I made a performance profile and made a Firefox bug report. It took some time but they eventually figured that it was because I run a 240Hz monitor, which was causing some events not to fire until a timeout expires: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684703 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684703.
fenomas 6y ago
> Using popular apps like Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Fedora, Debian, etc., I don't have a snowball's chance in a hot place at even getting my issue looked at.. Is this based on experience? In building a browser game engine, over the past few years I've filed ~3 chrome bugs and they all got fixed. Also the experience was frankly nicer than what I'm used to with github repositories - nobody on the chrome team closed my issue for departing from the bug report template! In fact they didn't even ask for repro files; basically as long as I described the issue clearly, they took it from there. Granted the process took a looong time (months IIRC). But overall I found it very painless.

nightcracker 6y ago

At least in Firefox this doesn't appear to be true, at least not always. Recently I noticed that on my main PC, if I have uBlock Origin enabled, all network requests are delayed significantly. So I made a bug report on uBlock Origin's Github. They couldn't find the issue and they eventually asked if I could try it with another ad-blocking addon, and sure enough, the same bug. So the issue was with Firefox, not a specific addon. So I made a performance profile and made a Firefox bug report. It took some time but they eventually figured that it was because I run a 240Hz monitor, which was causing some events not to fire until a timeout expires: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684703 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684703.

fenomas 6y ago

> Using popular apps like Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Fedora, Debian, etc., I don't have a snowball's chance in a hot place at even getting my issue looked at.. Is this based on experience? In building a browser game engine, over the past few years I've filed ~3 chrome bugs and they all got fixed. Also the experience was frankly nicer than what I'm used to with github repositories - nobody on the chrome team closed my issue for departing from the bug report template! In fact they didn't even ask for repro files; basically as long as I described the issue clearly, they took it from there. Granted the process took a looong time (months IIRC). But overall I found it very painless.