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On two occasions now I have noticed that netbeans.org Issuezilla is displaying comments in issues in reverse order, i.e. starting with the newest comments and finishing at the bottom of the page with the original reporter's description. The first time occurred a few months ago immediately after the last netbeans.org site upgrade, though this might be a coincidence. It happened again to me just today I think. Somewhat disconcerting when you are accustomed to forward chronological order. It seems that I have the cookie 'HISTORY_SORT' set to the value 'new' in the netbeans.org domain when this happens. When I remove this cookie in Firefox preferences, the problem goes away. What piece of code is setting this cookie and why? I have no recollection of asking Issuezilla to sort issue comments differently, and in fact I can find no web GUI anywhere in Issuezilla which permits you to configure this. If there is any value in such an option, certainly it should not be set without explicit user approval, and a clear way to revert the decision.
There is an option namely 'Sort by: Oldest first | Newest first' in the issue page. You can find it just below the 'view issue activity', 'Format for printing' and 'Format as XML' links.
Strange, I never saw that link before. Or I saw it every day, but never thought about it. I guess I must have accidentally clicked on it without noticing?
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