Re: Found Asa's first comment about version numbers.
Ron Hunter <[email protected]>
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On 8/20/2011 1:41 PM, Sailfish wrote: > My bloviated meandering follows what Robert Kaiser graced us with on > 8/20/2011 8:55 AM: >> Asa Dotzler schrieb: >>> Greywolf, so your use case for wanting to know the Firefox version >>> number is that you're looking for some add-on? >> >> That reminded me that we have yet another problem when we really want >> to de-emphasize version numbers in some way: I just went to AMO, hoved >> over some featured add-on and it said "Not available for Firefox 9.0a1". >> Now how will we handle this when we don't want to show version numbers >> to users? Have we actually made a plan to prepare AMO to be ready for >> this? >> > The version number is only being de-emphasized, not removed. It's still > readily available using Help>Troubleshooting Information, no? > Since NONE of this has happened yet, how do we know? I still haven't seen a clear answer as to what harm it would do to have the version in the trouble shooting section, AND in the About: dialog.