Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On 8/18/2011 4:38 PM, Sailfish wrote:
> 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.
>
Making information available in more than one place hardly constitutes 
'dumbing down'.