Re: Version numbers and an update from the UX team

On Aug 21, 5:14 am, Reuben Morais <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, like I said, I taught them how to use the features they care
> about in the new version. Version numbers are the last thing they care
> about.

You're right. So let's roll with that for a moment, shall we? 3.6
series user accidentally upgrades, despite cautions of his peers to
avoid newer versions like plague. He finds the browser stripped of any
kind of features, because he can no longer find what he needs, due to
"improvements". All comfort of features donated by 3rd party plugins
is gone as well (which is a Critical Failure for a browser which
always believed in 3rd party plugins to such degree, that "there's a
plugin for that" thinking became commonplace). Let me assure you, user
will very quickly home in on the root of his problems; i.e., having
unwittingly accepted newer but inferior version. There is such a thing
as word of mouth, and at this moment it does not favor Firefox. I say,
well done. Keep this up and care level indeed drops to zero, there's
no worries about version numbers when something is indeed thing of
distant past. :D

ps. is being clueless a job requirement @ mozilla? do you have to take
lessons for that? get off your high horse already...