Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

Asa Dotzler schrieb:
> I had another interesting encounter with an irate Linux user who was
> ticked off because he heard that Firefox 7 had some huge memory
> improvements but he'd checked his about window and it said he was on the
> up to date version called 5.0. He thought we were ignoring Linux and
> leaving it behind on an older version.

Removing the version from the About dialog is not going to fix this 
problem, though. This is a matter of the developers not communicating 
enough that this was Aurora only at that time (and is Beta now). If 
anything, having the version in the About window makes it easier for him 
to notice once he is on 7, actually.

> That being said, there are clearly a few people making good arguments
> for why the version number should be removed.

You're right in that there are few, while there are more giving good 
arguments why they think it should *not* be removed. But I feel like you 
were typoing there.
In any case, there are some arguments in this thread in both directions, 
and it's hard to see which are stronger, esp. since you and others did 
not explain the story enough from the beginning for people to understand 
it. Of course, other people coming back with insults is also the wrong 
thing. We need to get to a track where we can constructively arrive at a 
well-explained solution that helps as many people as possible.

Robert Kaiser


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arguments that we as a community should think about. And most of the 
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