470287 - 3.0.4 first run tells me I'm running the latest, but 3.0.5 is available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 538486

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Seth Spitzer]

3.0.4 first run tells me I'm running the latest, but 3.0.5 is available

I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

from http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/firstrun/

Thanks for installing the safest, fastest and most customizable version of Firefox yet. To start browsing, just close this tab as shown above.

but 3.0.5 is available, and I can get it through the website or software update.

perhaps the 3.0.4 first run page is out of date?

(http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.3/firstrun/ has the same issue)

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Though it doesn't truly say "latest" anywhere, I can see how that sentence can be easily interpreted as such (and probably rightfully so).

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/whatsnew/, however, does tell you that you're not running the latest.

I guess we should do some matching on the firstrun pages, too?

Comment 2

[John Slater]

My personal feeling is that, because a) the text is non-specific enough in that it never explicitly says "the latest" and b) only a very small % of new Firefox users will be coming to the 3.0.4 first run page now that 3.0.5 is available (in fact, I'm not even sure what the use case for that is), this isn't something we need to worry about very much.

So, my inclination is to mark this as Won't Fix, but if you guys have a recommended solution I'm certainly open to discussing it.