I got a couple patches through to Firefox proper. One was a fairly easy bugfix[1], but the other[2] took me lots and lots of iterations to get correct. The ment

I got a couple patches through to Firefox proper. One was a fairly easy bugfix[1], but the other[2] took me lots and lots of iterations to get correct. The mentor was extremely patient, taking what I think was more time to explain to me how to do it right than it would have taken him/her to just do it themselves. The worst part for me wasn't understanding the code (though following through some of the XPCOM stuff is tough), but working with Mercurial. I was tempted several times to abandon it and use a git mirror. Anyone that says patch queues are equivalent to git rebase is crazy. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1006656 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1006656 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907310 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907310