On rolling back

It is very important to know what version you're using at a glance. In the USA students seeking financial aid must fill out a form online. The site used for this is very specific in their version requirements for Firefox (3.6 or earlier as of this date) running on Windows or Mac OS X. It stands to reason that other sites with such specific requirements may exist as well.

Having the version in the name or some other truly overt poition is a little stupid, but removing it entirely from the parts in which people are familiar represents a drastic step backward in user experience. I am a very competent computer user and I have been with Firefox since version 1.5 and I had never learned about the "about:troubleshooting" and "about:support" pages until today, and I didn't know that "about:troubleshooting" was in a menu until I read this thread. I do urge the parties involved to see this as an extremely unimportant thing to be mucking with now and return to doing real work on improving Firefox's performance and other truly important aspects of the user experience that have improved so much in the past few years.