They have, however, always been very relevant to your developer audience. We have a news flash for Mozilla: version numbers have always been irrelevant to your consumer audience. We have a goal to make version numbers irrelevant to our consumer audience." So why does Mozilla want to ditch the version number? In the words of Asa Dotzler, director of Firefox, "we’re moving to a more web-like convention where it’s simply not important what version you’re using as long as it’s the latest version. After all, even Google Chrome, the browser from which Firefox has borrowed much of its new look and its new rapid release cycle, still offers a version number. Instead of a version number Mozilla simply wants the box to read something like "Firefox checked for updates 20 minutes ago, you are running the latest version." Mozilla believes that eliminating the version number will reduce user confusion.Īs is witnessed by an increasingly hostile thread in the group, pretty much everyone outside Mozilla seems to think eliminating the version number is a bad idea. The version number currently shown in Firefox’s "About" dialog has been filed as a bug. Mozilla has created a stir in the Firefox community by suggesting that the version number ought to be eliminated.
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