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>3.5. Filing Bugs</H1
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>Years of bug writing experience has been distilled for your
reading pleasure into the
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While some of the advice is Mozilla-specific, the basic principles of
reporting Reproducible, Specific bugs, isolating the Product you are
using, the Version of the Product, the Component which failed, the
Hardware Platform, and Operating System you were using at the time of
the failure go a long way toward ensuring accurate, responsible fixes
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>The procedure for filing a test bug is as follows:</P
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