Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Robert Kaiser wrote:
> DaveG schrieb:
>> We're almost upon Firefox 6, yet only 66% of the users I see here are
>> running a current version.
>
> 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.

We're 90% where we're actually using our rapid release process. Firefox 
3.6 is still supported (and will be until we sort out the Enterprise 
problem.) so we can't say that Firefox 6 or 7 are mandatory security 
updates for 3.6 yet and if we can't say that then we're not actually on 
the rapid release cycle for those users.

My point is not that we don't need to worry about those users. My point 
is that they cannot be used to directly criticize the effectiveness of 
our rapid release process. Firefox 5 was the first "rapid" update. 
Firefox 6 is the second. When we've got to Firefox 7 and 8 and we're at 
95+% upgrades for rapid release users, I think we'll be able to claim 
success. I want it to be 99+% of course, and we shouldn't stop until we 
get there (or better) but we're not experiencing a disaster with the 
rapid release process by any means.

- A