Dear Mitchell,
I am writing to you to voice the following concern:
Many users not only use Firefox to "consume" web content (incl. audio
and video) but also to participate in social networks (Facebook,
Twitter), write e-mail (for example using Gmail) or do online shopping
and online banking.
For these activities they enter/type/paste information into text fields
of a web page displayed in Firefox. The core modules which handle the
text input are the modules mentioned in the subject: Core::Editor,
Core::Serializers and Core::Spelling checker.
These modules are currently unowned and have a plethora of obvious,
reproducible and annoying bugs which puzzle users and make Firefox look
bad, also in comparison with Chrome [1].
In October 2015 Ehsan stepped down as the owner of Core::Editor [2] and
this role has been vacant ever since. I don't understand the internals
of Mozilla well enough, but IMHO it seems unfortunate that these *vital*
modules receive no visible attention. What puzzles me is that some
internal refactoring does take place, at least in Core::Editor [3], but
that does not deliver improvements to the users.
I request that an owner be assigned or hired for these modules and that
these bugs get properly triaged and the more significant ones receive
some attention.
Kind regards from Berlin, Germany,
Jorg K (Mozilla contributor - www.jorgk.com/misc/Mozilla-work.pdf)
[1]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Editor&component=Serializers&component=Spelling%20checker&list_id=12876575&product=Core&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&order=bug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&limit=0
(1105 bugs, of which perhaps 5% are worth fixing)
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platform/ehsan$20editor/mozilla.dev.platform/GKZX7CrUbnY/b1sxG9ZpBgAJ
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156062
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1190172
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191354
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191356
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