Case in point: version numbering. Last weekend on a Mozilla developers' forum when it was suggested that Firefox stop providing a version number in its "About" dialog box.

Under that new scenario--which is not part of the new but would be introduced in a future version--the About window would instead say something like, "Firefox checked for updates 20 minutes ago, you are running the latest release." Full version information would still be available, however, from Firefox's Help, Troubleshooting menu.

"We're moving to a more Web-like convention where it's simply not important what version you're using as long as it's the latest version," Firefox Product Manager Asa Dotzler wrote by way of explanation in the . "We're also already in a new system where there is no supported version except the latest version, so the overwhelming majority of users will be on that latest version and for them, the most important thing isn't the number of the release. The most important thing is confidence that they're on the latest release. That's what the About dialog will give them."

Makes sense to me. Nonetheless, there's been quite a fuss kicked up about it all, and Dotzler has reportedly even reached out to several press outlets to clarify that version numbers won't be unavailable, but rather just accessible in a different place.

Is this a big deal? Should users or freak out? I hardly think so. Here's why.