Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On Aug 18, 3:04 am, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your grandma might not open that dialog, but plenty of people do and
> right now it can cause them to be mislead or to not trust Firefox when
> Firefox is telling them they're up to date.
>
> And this is just starting to be a problem. A year from now when we've
> shipped a dozen or so rapid releases, we'll have even more incorect and
> outdated articles on the web saying that some version which isn't is
> actually the latest version.

Funny story there... my home computer grabbed FF 6 this morning in a
totally painless way (even the update installation was fast, which is
nice).

My work computer? Help > About at this very second says "5.0. Firefox
is up to date." I just started it up this morning, so it's not an old
version of the check.

Without the version number there, what's left to do except trust the
thing telling me that I'm up to date when I'm really not? A release
date would work too, if it told me I still have the July 2011 release
then I'd be able to figure out pretty easily that there's now an
August 2011 release and something's gone wrong (and if I ignore it for
3 months, a November or December 2011 one). But if the only thing I
see is "FF is up to date" then a normal user really has to believe it.
I only know its wrong because my home computer installed an update and
you notice a UAC prompt at 6:30am. :)