UPDATE: Please read !!
All of the codes here have now been replaced by Bugzilla keywords. This doc is mainly of historical interest.
What are codes in Bugzilla?
Codes are utilized by various developmental engineers and QA testers to assist in the query of a group of bugs with a related issue. These codes may appear for a short time as needed for a particular developmental period or may be used throughout the project.
Updates for this page are indicated as follows:
- Codes moved to keyword field use will be noted in italic.
- RETIRED!! - indicates this code was use before we had a component for the area. Please use the product/component indicated from now on, not the code.
- Plain text means we are not sure if code is still in use :-)
| Code | Definition | Where Used in Bug Report | |
| [4.xP] | Product Parity bugs. A bug is a Product Parity bug if it occurs on Mozilla builds, but does not occur using the latest release of Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "4xp" | |
| [8.3] | 8.3 File naming problem | Summary Field | |
| [ABR] Array bound read | Memory corruption problem | Summary Field | |
| [ACCOUNT WIZARD] RETIRED!! |
Account Wizard related bug | Summary Field - Use the Account Manager component in the Browser product. | |
| [ALERTS] | A bug related to message alerts | Summary Field | |
| [API] | A bug related to code | Summary Field | |
| [Arch] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to architectural stuff | Summary Field - Use the Architecture product and it's related components. | |
| [BETA] | All Netscape-specific beta issues | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "beta1" | |
| [BLOCKER] or Severity: blocker or Dependent on: (an important bug) RETIRED!! |
A bug which is holding up some work on another component |
Summary field - Use the Blocker selection in the severity field. | |
| [CODEBUG] | Internal code bug; no reproduction or reduction needed |
Summary field | |
| [CODE CLEANUP] | Clean up and changes to code | Summary Field | |
| {colspan-width} | One of a set of table bugs which only manifests itself when COLSPAN, WIDTH, images and other features are mixed. |
Summary field | |
| {compat} | Not a bug, but something so commonly misused on the internet that we should provide a work around for. i.e., we do it right, but older browsers get it wrong. |
Summary field | |
| [converter] | Character set converter | Summary Field | |
| [CRASH] | A Critical Severity bug which causes a crash | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "crash" | |
| {css1} | A known bug with CSS1 support | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "css1" | |
| {css2} | A CSS2 bug or feature request (cf. {css1}). | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "css2" | |
| {css3} | A CSS3 bug | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "css3" | |
| {css-moz} | A bug with one of the Mozilla CSS extensions such as -moz-border-radius | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "css-moz" | |
| DHTML | DHTML related bug | Summary field | |
| [DOGFOOD] | This indicates a bug nominated as a blocker to the Dogfood Milestone. Dogfood is when the [PDT+] bugs are under 5 total, and internal Netscape development can use the Seamonkey product for daily use. | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "dogfood" | |
| {dom1} RETIRED!! |
A DOM1 bug | Summary field - Use the DOM Level 1 component in the Browser Product | |
| {dom2} RETIRED!! |
A DOM2 bug | Summary field - Use the DOM Level 2 component in the Browser Product | |
| [ENDER] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to the Ender work. | Summary field - Use the Editor component in the Browser Product | |
| [enh] RETIRED!! |
Enhancement related bug | Summary field - Use the Enhancement selection in the severity field. | |
| [EXPORT] | A bug related to exporting library symbols | Summary field | |
| {feature} or RFE: or Severity: enhancement or [FEATURE] or [RFE] | A request for a new feature OR work needed on an new feature | Summary field - For RFE, use the Enhancement selection in the severity
field. - Add "helpwanted" keyword for feature work to do |
|
| [FILTERS] | A bug related to Mail/News Filters | Summary Field | |
| [FLASH] | A bug related to Flash movie | Summary Field | |
| {float} | Indicates that the bug had problem with html floaters (e.g. <img src=... align=left> type objects). |
Summary field | |
| {first-letter} | A bug with the :first-letter pseudo element. (A complex {css1} issue) |
Summary field | |
| [GTK Themes] RETIRED!! |
Bugs that manifest themselves when using certain GTK themes (unix-specific) |
Summary field - Use the GTK Embedding Widget component in the Browser product | |
| [GFX] or [GFX Scrollbar] | Bug in the XP drawing code OR Bug with the GFX-based scrollbar that doesn't exist in the native scrollbar | Summary Field | |
| [HAB] | Bugs involving the history address book feature in mail/news | Summary Field | |
| [Help Wanted] | Bug which requires assistance | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "helpwanted" | |
| [history] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to History component | Summary Field - Use the History component in the Browser product | |
| [I18N] RETIRED!! |
An internationalization bug. | Summary field - Use the Internationalization component in the Browser or MailNews product (dependant on area bug found) | |
| {ib} | A inline-containing-a-block handling bug (a {css1} issue that has not yet been solved). |
Summary field | |
| [IMAP] | A bug related to the IMAP work. | Summary Field | |
| [IME], [IME rule] | An IME related bug | Summary Field | |
| {inc} | An incremental reflow bug. | Summary field | |
| [infinite loop] | A infinite loop bug in code | Summary Field | |
| [L10N] RETIRED!! |
A localization bug. | Summary field - Use the Localization component in the Browser or MailNews product (dependant on area bug found) | |
| [L12y] | L12y is Localizability; this is not localization, but the act of being
able to localize the product (UI in separate files, correct concatenations, no hardcoded strings...) |
Summary field | |
| [LAUNDRY] | Some code that will have to be removed before release. | Summary field | |
| [LAYER] RETIRED!! |
Please use the evangelism component instead! | Page breaks because it uses the Layer DOM API | Summary field |
| {list} | A bug with the list numbering or bullets code. | Summary field | |
| [Local Mail only] | A bug related to Local Mail | Summary Field | |
| [Mac] or [MAC ONLY] | Mac specific problem | Summary Field | |
| [MAKINGTEST] | Someone is working on creating a test case | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "makingtest" | |
| [malloc] | Memory allocation problem | Summary Field | |
| [MEMORY BLOAT] | Memory bloat problem | Summary Field | |
| [MESSAGE DISPLAY] | A bug related to improper display of email message | Summary Field | |
| [META] | A placeholder bug for tracking the progress of other bugs. Meta bugs are made dependent on other bugs so that interested parties can be kept up to date with the status of a bug, without having to receive all the mails related to the bugs development. |
Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "meta" | |
| [Migration] | Mail migration problem | Summary Field | |
| MLK: (or [MLK] or MLK, by others) | A memory leak, accompanied by a Purify (or equivalent) log. There is no associated STATUS marker, but obviously this is a no test case required situation (beyond the original test description). | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "mlk" | |
| [NATIVE-WIDGET] | A bug which only occurs with the native (non-gfx) widgets. |
Summary field | |
| NavQuirks | This bug is related to the NavQuirks mode. | Summary field | |
| [NECKO] RETIRED!! |
A bug depending on the Necko landing. | Summary field - Use the Networking component in the Browser product or the Networking-Mail component in the MailNews product (dependant on area bug found) | |
| [NEWS] | A bug related to the USENET work | Summary field | |
| [NOTESTCASENEEDED] | No testcase needed for this bug | Was in Status Whiteboard, now using keyword field as "donttest" | |
| [OPT] | Occurs in optimized build only. Cannot be reproduced in debug build. |
Summary field | |
| [PAINTING] | A bug related to GUI painting problem | Summary Field | |
| [PATCH] | Some addition to fix a problem on some platform | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "patch" | |
| [PDT+/-] | This is used to bless a bug for a dogfood fix. PDT+ means that we definitely need this bug fixed for dogfood; PDT- means that the bug fix is not necessary to declare dogfood. (See [DOGFOOD] above.) | Status Whiteboard - will stay in Status Whiteboard. WILL NOT move to keyword field | |
| [PERF] | A performance issue (optimizations, coping with large files, other related things). |
Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "perf" | |
| [PI] | Platform specific work (Platform Integration) - platform specific features expected/required to make the product usable to consumers on a specific platform | Summary Field | |
| POP/IMAP Mail | POP/IMAP related bug | Summary Field | |
| [Porkjockey] | A bug for work needed on infrastructure/architecture | Summary field | |
| [PP] | Platform Parity bugs. A bug is a Platform Parity bug if it only occurs on a particular platform or two platforms. For example, if you find a bug on Linux, but it does not occur using the same day's Win32 or Mac OS build. | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "pp" | |
| [PREF MIGRATION] | A preferences migration related problem | Summary Field | |
| [PREFS] or Pref UI RETIRED!! |
Bug related to 'Preferences' menu | Summary Field - Use the Pref UI component in the Browser product | |
| [PRINTING] RETIRED!! |
A Printing related bug | Summary Field - Use the Printing component in the Browser product OR the Printing component in the MailNews product (dependant on area bug found) | |
| [QA Blocker] | A bug which blocks all QA testing activities | Summary Field | |
| [RDF] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to the RDF work. | Summary Field - Use the RDF component in the Browser product | |
| [REALPLAYER] | A Real audio related bug | Summary field | |
| [REGRESSION] | The bug was fixed, but then it came back (regressed). The State was changed to Reopened | Was Summary Field, now using keyword field as "regression" | |
| [RENAME] | A bug related to renaming a file | Summary Field | |
| [SCROLL BAR] | A GFX Scrollbar related bug | Summary Field | |
| [SD] Smart Download | A bug related to sdinst.dll | Summary Field | |
| [SHOCKWAVE] | A Shockwave movie related problem | Summary Field | |
| {sink} | A bug in the content sink (the code in between the parser and the layout engine). |
Summary field | |
| [ssl] | A bug for Secure Socket Layer related problem | Summary Field | |
| [STARTUP] , [STARTUP PERFORMANCE] | A bug related to application startup. | Summary Field - make sure to add "perf" in keyword field | |
| [SUGGESTION] | A bug with suggestion(s) | Summary Field | |
| [TASK] | A bug related to some task that needs to be completed | Summary Field | |
| [TESTCASE] | simplified test case is done and included in bug | Was Summary or Status Whiteboard Field, now using keyword field as "testcase" | |
| [tracking] | For tracking issues related to a particular category | Summary Field - often the "meta" keyword gets used for this function | |
| [Tree] | Tree widget related bugs | Summary Field | |
| "TTF: 2 weeks" or similar (TTF = Time To Fix) | Time required to fix a particular bug | Summary field | |
| [UMR] | Uninitialized Memory Read related bug | Summary Field | |
| (user:...) | An action item saying that 'user' will do '...'. For example, "(py8ieh:will examine)" means py8ieh intends to examine the bug. | Status Whiteboard | |
| [USERAGENT] | Problem in user agent content | Summary field | |
| [WALLET] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to the wallet component | Summary field - Use the Autofill component in the Browser product | |
| [Webshell] RETIRED!! |
Bug related issues with nsWebShell and related classes, and possibly embedding | Summary Field - Use the DocShell component in the Architecture product | |
| [WIN32] or WIN98 | Windows platform specific bug | Summary Field | |
| [XML] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to XML | Summary field - Use the XML component in the Browser product | |
| [XPCOM] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to the XPCOM work. | Summary field - Use the XPCOM component in the Browser product | |
| [XUL] RETIRED!! |
A bug related to the XUL work. | Summary field - Use the XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL component in the Browser product |