Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

While in theory a user shouldn't care about the release, in practice
they do as long as Add-ons compatibility is release-dependent.

Consider when Firefox either doesn't auto-update due to an
incompatible add-on, or does update and disables the add-on. The first
thing the user is going to do is go to the add-on page and check the
Firefox version requirements, which will say "compatible with Firefox
9" (or whatever). At this point the user *needs to know* what version
of Firefox they are on.

Or, the user will want to Google for the add-on name + Firefox version
to find instructions for what to do to resolve the issue. Again, they
need to know what version they're on.


(The root of this problem is that while Mozilla is now claiming
increases in major version number do not indicate changes in APIs, the
add-on architecture is still using it to check compatibility.  It
should not be the user's job to fix this.  And that's why I'm stick on
Firefox 4.)