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>5.6. 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
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>Try to make sure that everything said in the summary is also 
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>If you feel a bug you filed was incorrectly marked as a
      DUPLICATE of another, please question it in your bug, not      
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