unfortunately, this bug was marked as WONTFIX upstream:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108147 over 10 years ago.
This might be the correct choice at that time, since nobody used decimal
prefixes (except hard disk manufacturers) at that time. I think this
decision should be
This is also true of the Downloads window. The file sizes there do not
conform to Ubuntu's unit policy.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538738
Title:
Firefox uses the SI standard for
Confirmed in firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6 on Lucid
Also fixed a typo in the description.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: firefox
Firefox uses the SI standard for base-2 units. This violates the units
policy [1].
Testcase: Open a random page in Firefox (for example,
