Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Asa Dotzler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Reuben Morais wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Martin Jungowski
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> To add some more confusion:
>>
>> Firefox 5.0:   58,9%
>> Firefox 5.0.1: 13,1%
>>
>> How's that even possible? Wasn't 5.0.1 a mandatory automatic update?
>>
>
> No, 5.0.1 was released for Mac users only as it addressed a specific
> problem on OS X 10.7 "Lion".
>
> --
> Reuben

Actually, it was more complicated than that.

5.0.1 was available on the Website for Mac, Linux, and Windows users.
5.0.1 was available as an update for only Mac users.

5.0.1 on windows and on Linux is identical to 5.0. So, we didn't waste 
peoples' bandwidth updating them to 5.0.1 if they were on Windows or 
Linux and already had 5.0.

But if they were new users going to the website we gave them 5.0.1 
regardless of which OS because it's easier to manage just one release there.

- A
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