Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Dao schrieb:
> 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.

That's why we need to tell them our best guess in the absence of being 
able to check for an update of them being practically sure to be 
insecure or not. And tell them how old their release is (or from what 
date), as they can manually compare to when we actually did the most 
recent release.

Robert Kaiser

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