Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On 15/08/11 20:37, jarosite wrote:
>> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>>
>> You cannot roll back Firefox versions without losing support. You get
>> automatic updates with Firefox unless you've disabled that feature which
>> you absolutely should not unless you're trying to get exploited.
>>
>> No one is taking these things away. You can roll back. You can turn off
>> updates. It's just a foolish thing to do in all but very exceptional
>> cases and we discourage it.
>>
>
> To say turning off updates is a foolish thing to do is ridiculous from
> a business standpoint. If firefox is being used in an office
> environment an update should only take place once IT has verified that
> it is compatable and works in that environment. Nobody automatically
> update Windows in a business environment, it is rolled out accross the
> business remotely.
>
> In this situation when a user is talking to IT support it is easiest
> for the user to look at help->about to verify the version being used.
> Many users of the more simple variety, which is most people in an
> office environment will find about:support all a bit much to take
> in.....

Oh, but didn't you know? Enterprise users are of absolutely no concern 
whatsoever-at-all to Firefox. So said, a couple of weeks ago, Mr. 
Firefox himself, the same Asa Dotzler who his heading the project about 
moving version numbers away from where people look for them and onto 
some page which your grandmother will close in horror wihout reading any 
of it, so much will she be overwhelmed by the massive amount of 
technical gibberish-and-gobbledygook on it.

>
> At the end of the day there are no real gains to removing the version
> number.
> I suggest vewing the article on slashdot to see quite a bit more
> negative feedback from the more technically minded and experienced.
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/177257/Mozilla-To-Remove-User-Facing-Firefox-Version-Numbers
>
> c
>

I'll add that it makes me sad that "Mr. UX" was the person who initially 
proposed a change which, IMHO, is so much against ux-control, against 
ux-discovery and against ux-consistency that it ought never to have been 
considered. But that is only my opinion.


Best regards,
Tony.
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