Re: Found Asa's first comment about version numbers.

My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on 
8/20/2011 1:06 PM:
> 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.
> 
I believe I read one of Asa's many responses that it will remain in 
Help>Troubleshooting Information (anyone correct me if I'm wrong.) I've 
fired up 9.0a1 and it's still there, but then, it's still in the About 
dialog, too.

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