Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

On Aug 21, 6:53 pm, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the risk of sounding childish - which is not my intent, but could
> likely be misread in the following:
> "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours."

Okay - I'm seeing two use cases called out now. The first:
Version number mismatch between platforms causing user anxiety.
Example given: Fx 5.0 (Windows) vs 5.0.1 (Mac).  I didn't see this as
a use case when you were presenting it previously, but as a edge case
that could use a communication cleanup.  After banging my head through
hundreds of messages, I think I finally get it.  And think that Isaac
Stitz's suggestion could be useful here, as you've already noted
("check that the version isn't different for platform X between
version Y & Z, and report platform X has running version Z").

The second:
"We believe that the most common case is to be assured that she is
indeed on the latest version, and in the rare case that she's opened
the About window before and update has finished, that we can assure
her that the update is in progress (and hopefully finish it out really
quickly.)" --Asa, 20-Aug-2011, 17:40-- and that "The use case we think
is most important, and the one we've optimized for, is the user who
wants to know if she's on the latest version of Firefox." --Asa, 21-
Aug-2011, 16:16--

I think there's a valid third use case, which I called out in my post
earlier this evening, of a user who is new to Firefox, but not to
windowed applications.  If that use case doesn't seem particularly
relevant to the UX development team, as part of the "woo another 500
million users", so be it.  It just seemed to be a use case that was
glaringly omitted, and I was trying to understand why.

Regards,
--Steve Cook--