Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Matthias schrieb:
> And as for the new features: I have stopped reading the "what's new"
> with FF 6.0.

I agree that we should get rid of pushing a "what's new" in your face. 
We should have it for people who lazily want to look it up, perhaps 
linked from the about: tab (er, window... why can't it be a tab, 
actually?) but we should not put it in the face of users by default.

> I'm against hiding the version number from the user because there
> *are* different versions of FF in the wild

I think we need to fix having multiple versions out in the wild - except 
for the most current supported ones on our channels, which are made 
visible well in the About, er, window.

>   * when I read about a security exploit, I want to know whether I'm
> affected by it or not (and how long I have been affected)
>   * when I report a bug, I want to be able to say in what version that
> has happened
>   * when I try to reproduce a bug, I want to know in what version it
> has happened and what version I'm using
>   * when I develop web pages (I sometimes do) and a user reports a bug,
> I want to be able to use the same browser in the same version as he
> has used, if necessary

Having everyone on *Current* Firefox release/beta or Aurora should fix 
all of those. We need to do a better job of updating those people, 
that's what I'm reading out of this.

> Seems,
> now it's becoming even worse than Chrome :-(

What's worse?

Robert Kaiser

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