You must have been using some alternate-universe Jira. The Jira installations I've had to suffer with fall over bulk editing a handful of issues. I've never see

You must have been using some alternate-universe Jira. The Jira installations I've had to suffer with fall over bulk editing a handful of issues. I've never seen a "bulk edit" like feature implemented as poorly as it is in Jira. It shouldn't take 15 seconds to complete a simple bulk edit of a handful (single-digits) of issues.