530186 - Try to coerce about:crashes to display the report id with "bp-" already included

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Continually explaining "prepend 'bp-' to the ID before you paste it into a bug" is getting really old, and is more confusing than necessary.  

We should see if we can coerce about:crashes to just change the text inside the link (not the link itself) to include the "bp-" automatically, making it easier for users to copy and paste in a bug (or in the search field on crash-stats, which can now handle matching report IDs that include the bp- prefix).

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: auto-prefixes the text

This took all of, uh, 30 seconds :P

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

Comment on attachment 413843 [details] [diff] [review]
auto-prefixes the text

I'm not clear on why we want the bp-, but I presume there's a good reason ;) sr=smorgan.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

So when we ask users to copy the crash ID from about:crashes and paste it in a bug, we don't have to explain adding "bp-" to the front of the id (for Bugzilla linkification).  

It's easier for everyone to understand and do, and easier for us to explain; they can just copy/paste exactly what they see on about:crashes, and I can save about 3 lines on the Bugzilla FAQ ;)

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (for Bugzilla linkification).  

Ah, that was the part I was missing; thanks :)