Thunderbird Bug Fix Lab

Overview

This lab is designed to give you first-hand experience working through a real bug, from confirming to fixing to submitting a patch. You will also get experience building and working with Thunderbird, which shares much of the same code with Firefox.

Instructions

A friend has told you about something they don't like in Mozilla Thunderbird. "I got an email today, and it made a hyperlink out of some text that shouldn't have been underlined."

Here is the text of the email:

Does Wednesday aft. work for you?
I'll tentatively schedule for 3:30 on Wednesday.
We'll come to S@Y...where should we meet?

which is being displayed as follows in Thunderbird:

Does Wednesday aft. work for you?

I'll tentatively schedule 3:30 on Wednesday.

We'll come to <a href="mailto:S@Y...where">S@Y...where</a> should we meet?

Resources

• Creating a patch for Mozilla
• Instructions for getting a patch checked into the tree
• There are many tutorials on using diff/patch, for example this one.