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

Ron Hunter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?
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