April 25, 2008 6

One of these things is not like the others…

By morgamic in Mozilla

In a recent bug fligtar was nice enough to run some stats for me on platform strings passed in extensions.update.url via the %APP_OS% client variable in Firefox. He found some interesting results:

WINNT
Darwin
Linux
linux-gnu
SunOS
FreeBSD
linux
winnt
darwin
OS2
OpenBSD
NetBSD
BeOS
DragonFly
IRIX64
AIX
HP-UX
NTO
solaris2.10
OSF1
penis

Fixing bug 407211 will be a long and hard process, but I think I’ll be able to handle it.

6 Responses to “One of these things is not like the others…”

  1. anonymoose says:
    4.25.2008 at 4:13 pm

    Oh, I get it, very clever! Handle, long, hard, BeOS… :D

  2. Barry says:
    4.25.2008 at 6:01 pm

    Yeah ok, do _not_ Google for ‘penis’. IT’S NOT A REAL OS PEOPLE!!!1.34

  3. Ian M says:
    4.28.2008 at 2:18 am

    Aside from the lack of a “vagina” operating system, the obvious burning question that remains is why does it not act in a case-insensitive manner? (e.g. merging WINNT and winnt, or Linux and linux).

  4. Ben Hearsum says:
    4.28.2008 at 3:40 am

    LOL

  5. cshields says:
    4.28.2008 at 6:33 am

    heheh the only OS where you don’t mind a bit of extra bloat..

  6. morgamic says:
    4.28.2008 at 8:17 am

    @Ian – fligtar just parsed the logs real quick — extension updates are case-insensitive though.