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[m_c]

That's certainly not bragging material. I know FF is a massive amount of code but 8000 bugs seems like an awful lot of mistakes and oversights...

It all depends on what they've classed a 'bug', and how they're being tracked. What might be logged as a bug, may be something simple like a typo, or simply one developer has changed something that means something else needs changed, and they trigger that other change by logging another bug for another developer to pick up. Bug statistics are pretty much useless at telling you how good/bad something is.

[Jonathan]

It all depends on what they've classed a 'bug', and how they're being tracked. What might be logged as a bug, may be something simple like a typo, or simply one developer has changed something that means something else needs changed, and they trigger that other change by logging another bug for another developer to pick up. Bug statistics are pretty much useless at telling you how good/bad something is.

Agreed, and it's better than doing what Microsoft seem to do - namely release the software then rely on windows update to fix it!