627429 - update text on About Firefox menu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Slater]

The copy on the About Firefox menu is certainly not wrong in any major way, but it'd be nice to be more consistent with the way we're describing Mozilla & Firefox elsewhere. 

Recognizing the l10n challenges, is it at all feasible to get this updated for Fx4? If not, what about a dot release in the near future?

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Not possible for Firefox 4, and I'd ask you to familiarize yourself with the discussion in bug 579547 before making revised proposals. Not saying that you must make it like that, but at least so you're caught up on how we got to where we are.

Also: is there a guide referencing the way we're describing Mozilla & Firefox elsewhere? I'm all for consistency, but I'd like to know with what we're being consistent!

Comment 2

[John Slater]

Thanks for the tip on bug 579547 - I wasn't aware of that, and there are certainly lots of great points and lively discussion in there. 

I understand it's late in the cycle and after reading through 579547 I'm more fully aware of the time that's already been spent on that text, so of course this is something that can and should wait until a later release. 

When the time is right, though, I would like to continue tweaking it to ensure greater consistency with our other communications. And in a more meta point, I find it a little frustrating that I (or someone else in engagement, at least) never got looped into that conversation. Going forward, I'd love to get to a point where I or someone on my team is more actively involved in the way we represent the brand or describe ourselves within the product. Very important to have clarity & consistency there.