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Thunderbird too

Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 10, 2011 23:52 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Thunderbird too by endecotp
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

>> I'd just like to know why every release is a major number increment.

> To keep up with the other browsers. IE has got to version 9, Chrome is at something like 15.

Would you prefer that Chrome and Firefox call their 6-week updates minor releases, even though they do break things in these releases? Honest question. If Chrome and Firefox did that, we would have the exact opposite complaint ("Why does Chrome 5.2 break websites that worked on Chrome 5.1?" etc.).


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