Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On Aug 17, 6:14 pm, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dao schrieb:
>
> > It has been pointed out many times now that there are various
> > scenarios where "installing as we speak" isn't going to work. It's not
> > going to work when you're using a school or university workstation.
> > It's not going to work when you're offline. It's not going to work on
> > the computer running Ubuntu that I set up for my mother and brothers.
> > It's not going to work for the laptop running Windows XP that my
> > grandparents are using as non-admins.
>
> In those cases, we still can display "You are using the Firefox release
> from 8 days ago, but we can't check if it's current, so you might or
> might not be at a security risk by using it." - or actually "You are
> using a Firefox release from 12 weeks ago, we can't check for an update
> but you are probably at a security risk by using it. Please update to a
> newer version."

We actually can check for updates except for the offline and Ubuntu
cases.

When we can check for updates, the age of the build isn't interesting
anymore. (I'm assuming that the point you were trying to make is that
the age can be used to guess about whether there would be a newer
version.)

When we can't check for updates, your proposed strings don't help the
user to really figure out if there would be an update. The guess you
can make based on this is not only inaccurate; users aren't even in
the position to make that guess, since the update frequency is (or
should be) of no interest to them.