Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Tyler Downer wrote:
> On Aug 16, 9:51 am, Robert Kaiser<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Tyler Downer schrieb:
>>
>>> Example of how Firefox's updating is broken.
>>> This morning, I open Firefox 5.0.1, I open the About window, Firefox
>>> begins to download Firefox 6.
>> Good.
>>
>>> After the update, the Addon Compatibility checker opens up,
>>> runs, and informs me that the Java Console isn't compatible with
>>> Firefox 6. I can either check for updates for it, or skip. I skip.
>> A patch just landed on Nightly to make this better in the future (this
>> code should get to release in 12 weeks unless something bad is
>> discovered in it). I sincerely hope that 99.9% of the users will never
>> enable Java Console again and this won't be a problem any more in the
>> future.
>
> And I was more just meaning the Java console as the first example that
> comes to mind. But have the compatibility checker show up at all is a
> bad idea. There was one idea I heard tossed around a while back about
> having Firefox update on shutdown, instead of startup, which would
> make more sense.

This is in the plans. It can't complete the update on shutdown, but it 
can do a lot of it before shutdown so that on start-up the work left to 
do is so tiny we don't need a separate update dialog. Basically once 
every 6 weeks, Firefox will open a tiny fraction slower.

Your instincts/idea on this were spot on. We're doing it.

- A