Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Gervase Markham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17/08/11 05:07, Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Reubin, this is an interesting proposal -- showing the version number
> only in the out of date case and not in the up to date case. We probably
> wouldn't link to the update because we can already be applying the
> update while the person reads that sentence but I think there might be
> something to explore there with the version number only when the user is
> behind the latest release.

That's an excellent idea. It certainly mitigates some of the worrying
cases that people have given in this thread, while maintaining your
primary goal of normally just giving an "up to date, nothing to see
here, move along" message.

Gerv
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