Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On Aug 17, 6:14 pm, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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."

In fact, random release ages are worse than uninformative, they are
misleading. A 12-week-old release can be secure, a one-day-old release
can be insecure.