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July 28, 2007
helper application testing sought
On Wednesday, we landed the new protocol handling dialog in preparation for exposing web-based protocol handlers. Unfortunately, we didn't do a good enough job testing before the landing; so there were a number of unanticipated regressions, for which I'd like to apologize. We'll do better next time around.
Fortunately, thanks to heroic efforts by a bunch of folks including biesi, bz, ctalbert, dolske, gavin, karlt, and sdwilsh, we think we've got the most critical regressions fixed.
However, we'd like to be sure that we're shipping from a known state and that our fixes haven't introduced new issues. So for folks who are interested in lending a hand with testing, it'd be great if you could play around with content that is handed off to helper applications (both MIME-types and protocols) and let us know what you find using bugzilla.
Note that what we're mostly interested in hearing about at this point are functional regressions; we know that there is lots of visual work left to do on the new protocol-handling dialog. The builds to look at are Saturday night / Sunday morning nightlies.
For reference:
* List and status of known functional regressions
* Dependency tree of fixed and unfixed related bugs
Thanks in advance.
Posted by dmose at July 28, 2007 6:17 PM