Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers

MrSeb writes "A great collective gasp issued from tuned-in Firefox fans when Mozilla announced that it was switching to a Chrome-like release schedule for its browser. Now Mozilla wants to take things one step further and remove Firefox version numbers entirely — from the user-facing parts of the browser, anyway." You can see the Bugzilla entry for this change, and keep up on Mozilla's reasoning and discussion through a thread on the mozilla.dev.usability newsgroup. Mozilla's Asa Dotzler explained, "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. ... The most important thing is confidence that they're on the latest release. That's what the About dialog will give them."

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Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem...

[logjon]

Do not blame Mozilla because addon creators are too lazy or don't care enough to update their addons properly, or take advantage of a service Mozilla offers them. Do not blame Mozilla because you are too lazy or don't care enough to unzip the addon, open the config file, and change the max version number yourself.

We're blaming Mozilla for fixing something that isn't broken and breaking things that previously worked fine in the process. I'll be sure to send instructions to my grandmother so she can keep her .xpi files up-to-date because Mozilla decided to arbitrarily change silly shit for no other reason than "because we can."