Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On 8/18/2011 7:17 PM, Sailfish wrote:
> 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.
>
Perhaps they will, now that Mozilla has put it in.  It would be nice.