Posted Nov 11, 2011 22:15 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Thunderbird too by nix
Parent article: Firefox 8 released
Yes, Chrome's extension API is simpler and less susceptible to breakage when there is an update. (Firefox has jetpack addons which are similar, but they aren't used much yet.)
But websites can and do break with Chrome and Firefox updates. There is no way around that. So to not use a major version number would be misleading.