1604353 - help>about doesn't reveal which of multiple builds

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[gregrwm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SM-G900P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.116 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/55.0.2719.50522

Steps to reproduce:

help>about

Actual results:

the help>about window doesn't reveal which of multiple nightly builds per day is installed and running.

Expected results:

include the build number.

Comment 1

[Pablo]

Attachment: build Date

Comment 2

[Pablo]

Hi, you are using an android device or you are using a regular desktop?

I tested this on Windows10 64 bit, and then i choose help>about i see 73.0a1 and per the date it is todays build (2019-12-20)

Please let us know.
thanks!

Comment 3

[gregrwm]

linux desktop nightly builds multiple times per day. help>about doesn't reveal which of multiple builds per day is running.

Comment 4

[Pablo]

Greg, the Build ID is visible only when you type about:support on the url bar and hit enter.

When choosing Help>About you will only see the build date in nightly for linux, Windows, and MacOs.

In your case does it bring the Date if you go to Help>About ?

If it shows the date then this is not a defect. You want it to be treated as an enhancement?

regards
Pablo

Comment 5

[Pablo]

Since this information was not displayed in past versions of Firefox it seems like a great enhancement to have