And then, immediately…
October 22nd 2011 -
A last burst of enthusiasm is clearing away some long-standing bugs in the secret project. However, in the process of eliminating bugs, I managed to add one – an important image stopped being displayed. Puzzling. I tried reverting, but the bug was still there. Okay, that’s very weird. I went to older code, where I *knew* the image had been displaying fine, but the bug was still there.
Huh. Oh! They all use the same database! Went to a different database. Bug was still there. WHAT THE HELL.
Turned out to be an actual bug in Firefox 7.01. It’ll be fixed in Firefox 8 (released Nov 8th), but meanwhile I have to scramble for an alternate way of presenting this rather crucial bit of data…