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>3.6. Filing Bugs</H1
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>Years of bug writing experience has been distilled for your
reading pleasure into the
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While some of the advice is Mozilla-specific, the basic principles of
reporting Reproducible, Specific bugs, isolating the Product you are
using, the Version of the Product, the Component which failed, the
Hardware Platform, and Operating System you were using at the time of
the failure go a long way toward ensuring accurate, responsible fixes
for the bug that bit you.</P
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>The procedure for filing a test bug is as follows:</P
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>Go to
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in your browser and click
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>Select a product - any one will do.</P
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>Fill in the fields. Bugzilla should have made reasonable
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>Select "Commit" and send in your bug report.</P
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>Try to make sure that everything said in the summary is also
said in the first comment. Summaries are often updated and this will
ensure your original information is easily accessible.
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> You do not need to put "any" or similar strings in the URL field.
If there is no specific URL associated with the bug, leave this
field blank.
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>If you feel a bug you filed was incorrectly marked as a
DUPLICATE of another, please question it in your bug, not
the bug it was duped to. Feel free to CC the person who duped it
if they are not already CCed.
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