Closed
Bug 600569
Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Version string in "About" window should show build date for "pre" versions
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Firefox
General
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RESOLVED
FIXED
Firefox 4.0b8
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(Reporter: jk1700, Assigned: Gavin)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100928 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100928 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Every milestone Firefox is same (all 3.6 are same, all 4.0b5 are same) but it doesn't apply to "pre" versions - two 4.0b7pre builds can be different
Reproducible: Always
Comment 1•15 years ago
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The build ID in about:support can tell you that information. I agree that a build date would be nice, but adding a date string to the about window proved to be problematic, so it was removed in bug 596905.
I don't think that it should be in "human readable" format - it's ONLY FOR PRE
RELEASES so it's rather not for typical users and just "yyyymmdd" for everybody
would be enough. Is it still a problem?
Anyway, "won't fix" is not a problem for me, but please consider my comment #3
in bug 598169
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Comment 3•15 years ago
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I agree, this would be very useful for nightly users, and wouldn't burden release users any.
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Comment 4•15 years ago
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This includes the build date in the about dialog if the build's version contains "pre". Some Linux distros might ship "release" builds this way, but we won't (our build automation doesn't let that happen), so this should only impact a minority of users (who are most likely to care about build IDs).
Assignee: nobody → gavin.sharp
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
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Comment 5•15 years ago
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Updated•15 years ago
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Comment 6•15 years ago
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Yes, please. :)
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Comment 7•15 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Flags: in-testsuite-
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 4.0b8
Comment 8•15 years ago
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That's good for those that stick to just nightly builds, but the ones of us nut-cases that also use/run several hourly maybe in one day, it does not provide much info. The addition of the current cset would have been nice if you going to the trouble to display the date.
(In reply to comment #1)
> The build ID in about:support can tell you that information.
I don't think so.
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