Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Dao schrieb:
> When we can check for updates, the age of the build isn't interesting
> anymore.

Yes, that case is being dealt with in the original proposal. I was only 
addressing the case of for some reason not being able to get a reply 
from the update server.

> 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.

I think we should still warn them that we can't check for updates and we 
should warn them even harder when it's practically sure that their build 
is outdated.

Robert Kaiser


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