So why the Mozilla wants to ditch the version number? I said Asa Dotzler director for Firefox, "we are moving into more Web-based, such as the Convention, if it is not simply important, what version you are using, provided it is the latest version We have a goal of using the numbers version are irrelevant to our audience of consumers.. "
As witnessed by a group of spiral mozilla.dev.usability increasingly hostile, all more or less seems to think outside of Mozilla is to remove the version number is a bad idea. After all, Google Chrome, the browser Firefox, which has borrowed much of its new look and a new cycle of quick-release, still offers a version number.
Developer Dave Garrett said Dotzler writes: "I do not pretend that displays the version number is the most important thing in the world, only about a dialog box where it belongs and trying to change that feels like some of us like to fight. .. that does not need to be. "
We Newsflash Mozilla: Version numbers have always been meaningless for the consumer audience. I've always been very important for the audience of developers. And the version numbers are, whether it be Windows, OS X or Linux, this is the Information window. How can you write at some point in this thread very long Barry, "I would like to paraphrase the song, and ask:" What part of "about" Do not you understand? "This is a box entitled" About ", as it provides information about the" it "application."
Even many who are disturbed by the transition program adopted Mozilla Chrome quick release, stopping to embrace all without a version of Firefox. "I understand that the team wants UX version numbers less important," writes Tyler Downer, "out of the box about not the answer."
In fact remove the version number of the dialog box About is not the point, but that small changes are part of a larger goal - to bury the version number for Firefox users never know what version they use - and this goal is exciting a lot of Firefox users. The software model least the version that works well for web applications - like Gmail or Facebook - but Firefox is not Gmail. No matter how many want to ape Firefox web applications, it is not a web application. In the eyes of most users installed software is judged by a different set of standards.
So what would it be? Could the Chrome web browser.
Increasingly, it seems that web developers are under way, leaving Firefox for Chrome and Chromium (the open source version of Chrome). According to StatCounter, Firefox usage statistics in the world were a little but steady decline since September 2010.
Firefox chrome loses ground in all areas, offend no one, least of web developers have an important part of the initial success of Firefox, which seems to be a wrong strategy. But wrong or not, it seems that the strategy is taking Mozilla.
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