Great Bug Reports via “Recreate My Problem” in Microsoft Edge

When you encounter a problem in Microsoft Edge, you can let the team know about it using the … Menu > Help and Feedback > Send Feedback command. Clicking this menu item will open Edge’s feedback wizard, which provides tons of options about what information will be submitted along with your bug report. Generally speaking,Continue reading “Great Bug Reports via “Recreate My Problem” in Microsoft Edge”

Practical Time Machines

Many “emergency” situations in our modern world would’ve been easy to fix had they been foreseen in advance. If only we’d known what was going to happen, the badness could’ve easily been prevented. Unfortunately, when problems are discovered only “as they happen” in production, everyone must race to minimize the damage and put out theContinue reading “Practical Time Machines”

Cookies and Concurrency, Redux

In yesterday’s episode, I shared the root cause of a bug that can cause document.cookie to incorrectly return an empty string if the cookie is over 1kb and the cookie grows in the middle of a DOM document.cookie getter operation. Unfortunately, that simple bug wasn’t the root cause of the compatibility problem that I wasContinue reading “Cookies and Concurrency, Redux”