Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

DaveG schrieb:
> On Aug 16, 11:11 am, Robert Kaiser<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> DaveG schrieb:
>>> We're almost upon Firefox 6, yet only 66% of the users I see here are
>>> running a current version.
>
> It's getting rather hard to read this thread now. That was my first
> stats post [1] and as it turns out from numbers in a later post [2]
> that 66% applies specifically to the population of Firefox users who
> use addons. The total population using Firefox 5 is only just above
> half of the Firefox user-base.

I know, it doesn't change my arguments, though, so I left it.

>> Yes, we're doing a bad job on sending update offers to 3.6 users, we
>> should be way more aggressive there. We also need to improve the regular
>> update experience. We need to get that number to over 80% to claim even
>> something near to "success" and over 90% to be somewhat satisfied, IMHO.
>
> Yep. It's sort of strange that some people seem to think the numbers
> are good here. Personally, I think 80-90% isn't even very good. I like
> the rapid release cycle concept, though not quite all of its
> execution, but it's beginning to annoy me how we want to release
> rapidly but haven't really done anything with the updater to go with
> it yet.

I'm sure the team would be glad if you could help improving and testing 
the updater work to make this better.

Robert Kaiser

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