In the case of QuickTime, the confusion is compounded because it employs both helper application and plugin technology. For complete information on QuickTime relating to the plugin and player, see the QuickTime End User's page. Go to the Known Issues page for more information on problem installations. One of the perhaps most often misused terms in popular computer culture is bug . What was once a very specific concept of reproducable errors in the design or execution of a computer application, has now become a household word.
People use it whenever something goes unexpectedly.
In our very own NUGgies you can't read more than a couple dozen messages without someone using the term. Yes, even Netscape products occasionally exhibit undesirable behavior. However, experience and investigation shows that many of such undesirable outcomes are not directly a failure of the program at hand, but rather something else. Sometimes the cause is something about the computer itself, from old drivers to misconfigured network software, that is resulting in a less-than optimal result. That said, we would like it to be known that we are hungry for bugs.