Re: Found Asa's first comment about version numbers.
Ron Hunter <[email protected]>
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On 8/20/2011 3:14 PM, Sailfish wrote: > 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. > Using FF7 beta. Both About and Trouble shooting dialog just say 7.0. So, shouldn't at least one place tell me which beta?