Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on 
8/18/2011 3:12 PM:
> 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'.
> 
I was more so referring to other software products not creating the 
about:support-like screen.

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