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848 points thefilmore | 1 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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antalis ◴[13 May 25 07:02 UTC] No.43970286[source]▶
Firefox Mobile (Fenix) had just moved to Mozilla's Mercurial mozilla-central repository after using GitHub including for issues. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcom...

Now, both the desktop and the mobile version will be on Github, and the "issues" will stay on Bugzilla.

This will take advantage of both GitHub's good search and source browsing and Git's familiar system.

As a former Firefox and Thunderbird contributor, I have to say that I used local search instead of trying to find something on the mozilla-central website.

Of course, when you're actively developing software, you search inside your IDE, but allowing to find things easily on the website makes it more welcoming for potential new contributors.

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1. baobun ◴[13 May 25 12:37 UTC] No.43972241[source]▶
> This will take advantage of both GitHub's good search and source browsing and Git's familiar system.

The source browsing has detoriated severely relatively recently IME, to the point where i can't be called "good" anymore.

It now loads asynchronously (requiring js) and lazily, randomly breaks on shaky connections and in-page search is broken.

The recent issues/PRs revamp is also a pretty major step back. Try searching in PRs with all uBlock Origin lists enabled.