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Mozilla to remove Firefox version numbers
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article published on 18 August, 2011
Mozilla has confirmed this week that it plans to begin hiding the version number of Firefox in the "Help-> About" window dialog.
Asa Dotzler, community coordinator for Firefox marketing projects added the entry to Bugzilla, and says the dialog will now just offer more general information like "Firefox checked for updates 20 minutes ago, you are running the latest release."
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18. August 2011 @ 01:58 |
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Makes me wonder when Firefox 5 FOR REAL will come out...
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18. August 2011 @ 02:38 |
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patrick_
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18. August 2011 @ 03:39 |
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Actually, the idea does make sense, but they should forbid Asa Dotzler to speak in public.
The user shouldn't have to care about the version. Also, with forced auto-updates, neither should anyone else. Just to make this work, they'll have to make a lot of changes to their plugin interface.
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18. August 2011 @ 10:45 |
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Originally posted by ROMaster2:
Makes me wonder when Firefox 5 FOR REAL will come out...
my thoughts exactly.....these updates are nothing more then security and bug fixes.....i want to know which version will be a major release....each version till 4 have been major releases......i mean imagine if microsoft stop using major release numbers and start releasing every month a new OS
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Tonelegee
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19. August 2011 @ 11:52 |
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I feel an urge to change my browser to ...well it won't be Firefox if this tom-foolery continues.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. August 2011 @ 11:56
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19. August 2011 @ 13:36 |
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Originally posted by patrick_:
Actually, the idea does make sense, but they should forbid Asa Dotzler to speak in public.
The user shouldn't have to care about the version. Also, with forced auto-updates, neither should anyone else. Just to make this work, they'll have to make a lot of changes to their plugin interface.
I don't think so, there is no sense in this totally dumb decision, none!
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net2arsha
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19. August 2011 @ 14:02 |
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Originally posted by ROMaster2:
Makes me wonder when Firefox 5 FOR REAL will come out...
I have tried it but i think google chrome is light and fast one
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patrick_
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19. August 2011 @ 14:33 |
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Mr-Movies, you didn't understand my point: One should be able to use software without knowing/caring about the version he's running.
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19. August 2011 @ 15:14 |
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That is not reality unfortunately, I did understand your point but disagree with it do to bugs and comparability issues amongst other stuff.
Sorry...
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19. August 2011 @ 15:55 |
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I don't think it will help or hurt anything. It is just being removed from help screen. Leaving it there would please the masses that like to know what version they are on, removing it will not help the devs in any way. IMO to help the devs would mean to make a standard core so plugins and such are not tied to (for example) xxxxxx_v5 and is tied to xxxxxx
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19. August 2011 @ 17:00 |
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It will hurt for problem solving and updating this is the reason rev levels exist. Could you imagine trying to fix something that you are totally blind too, please that just defies common sense. Pretty normal attitude these days I must say!
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19. August 2011 @ 18:20 |
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Originally posted by patrick_:
Mr-Movies, you didn't understand my point: One should be able to use software without knowing/caring about the version he's running.
You can use the software without knowing/caring about it. Just don't click "Help->About Firefox." I, personally, prefer knowledge to ignorance.
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