Re: Thoughts on Bug 678775

My bloviated meandering follows what David Tenser graced us with on 
8/18/2011 3:19 PM:
> On 2011-08-18 13:41, Gervase Markham wrote:
>> As someone else said, we just had a round
>> of press about how Firefox 7 uses less memory. A question a user is
>> likely to ask when they read that is "Does my Firefox have that
>> improvement? Am I using Firefox 7?", and "you are on the latest stable
>> version" is *not* a satisfactory answer to that question for them.
> 
> This is a valid point -- I'd love to know how we would provide 
> sufficient information to satisfy the above user question without 
> providing the version number. Would we e.g. say which channel 
> (Aurora/Nightly/Beta/Stable) the user is using instead, and hope that 
> the tech press start to talk about channels rather than version numbers?

Version number is still there, it has merely moved from the About screen 
to the Troubleshooting Information screen.

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