Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Hello. I'm not sure about the netiqutte of posting here as i'm just a user, but i'm going to post my two cents anyway. 

I fail to see the reason behind hiding the version numbers. It makes very little difference to most people and will inconvinience many.  

The help > about window is were everyone goes to see what software version is currently installed. This is the only reason people go to that box. No one will be mistified by the numbers. I believe the version numbers should be hidden everywere but in that box. A user cannot accidently go to that box, it will be hidden unless he intentially invokes it. 

One way to make everyone happy would be to put a "technical details" link inside the "about box" that redirects to "about:support".

Another approach is to change the version numbering to "month.year" . So this months update (if one is released) would be "8.2011". This would help with support contracts, as support can be specified for "all 2011 and 2012 releases" and will change the user mentality into thinking of firefox releases as continuous updates rather than individual releases. If more frequent updates are needed days can be added as well. 

Overall i regard this change as symbolic more than practical. In any case, as a linux user version numbers will always exhist and be prominent in my computing due to the way packet managers work. 

Ironically I'm typing this from inside IE7 likely because my university has some kind of support issue with upgrading.