[Bug 934887]

[Dolske]

> (In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #102)
> > OTOH, I'd suspect this ends up breaking our Firefox landing/first run pages,
> > which check to see if you're actually running the latest build or not.
> 
> I get "Thank you for trying a nightly build and helping improve future
> versions of Firefox" here
> (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/prerelease.html). Might be because
> they sniff the Firefox token.

Pretty sure we don't do any special "are you current" checking on the
nightly pages; I don't know about Aurora or Beta.

I was actually thinking of Release builds and security updates, but I
see the patch doesn't actually match the original bug comments nor
current title. (Which seems to have mutated somewhere along the 100
comments which I desperately want to avoid reading. Using a new bug
would have been MUCH better -- mutating complex or contentions bugs with
histories just never works out well. Context matters!)

Specifically, the previous history of this bug was more about exposing a
version number like "rv:3" or "rv:3.6" instead of "rv:3.6.20". Now we're
just dropping any trailing, say, "a2", "b1", or "pre3". So now
"rv:13.0a1" becomes "rv:13.0" and "rv:13.0.9pre42" becomes "rv:13.0.9"
(which is largely moot, we don't make builds like that).

As long as first security update for the Release build still has
"rv:13.0.1", the issue I raised in comment 102 is quite unlikely to be
be a problem.

And if someone still wants to push for dropping everything but the
"13.0", then please file a new bug. Or get your debate on over in the
Seamonkey-specific bug 728952.

Finally, re:CCing Dan Witte just because he should suffer too. ;-D

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