Re: Removing Firefox Version Number
Sailfish <[email protected]>
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My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on 8/18/2011 2:09 PM: > On 8/18/2011 2:19 PM, Sailfish wrote: [snip /] >> Why is moving it from the Help>About screen to the Help>Troubleshooting >> Information... causing so much angst? First, the latter one is a more >> appropriate place for this type of information and second, that screen >> provides a wealth of more information that may help someone looking for >> version information and third, why the big out-cry at having to learn a >> new location for this information. >> >> Furthermore, those who fall back on what other programs use the About >> screen for fail to note that those said "other programs" don't have a >> Troubleshooting Information... screen so the About box is where they've >> chosen to stick the version information. That doesn't mean that a more >> appropriate place for it couldn't have been designed, as Firefox has >> clearly done. >> > > For one thing, the troubleshooting page offers so much information that > a user who only wants to know his version number is going to simply > close it without looking for the version number. Some people are > downright petrified by things like that. I find it hard to believe that someone looking for the version number in about:support will be flummoxed over seeing said number in the top section in the vaguely labeled row, Version. > Would the world as we know it cease to exist if a user could find this > information more than one place? The 'About box' is where every other > browser puts the version information. At least Firefox can't be accused > of copying this time. > No, but redundancy is the seed for mis-matching. Why should Mozilla follow the lemming model, just because other applications don't have a much more refined and appropriate place to list the version number isn't a reason for Mozilla to keep their software dumbed-down. -- Sailfish - Netscape Champion Netscape/Mozilla Tips: http://www.ufaq.org/ , http://ilias.ca/ Rare Mozilla Stuff: https://www.projectit.com/