BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agoIs it just a coincidence that Chromium and Firefox have similar version numbers?message-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up141file-text
arrow-up141message-squareIs it just a coincidence that Chromium and Firefox have similar version numbers?BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up55·16 days agoNo, it’s a PR move. Why would anyone use Firefox 12.0 when Chrome is so obviously more advanced with a fast release cycle sitting at version 120+?
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·edit-216 days agoBacking this up with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome. Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, and it took until March 2011 to get to version 4.0. Then by the end of 2011, they were on version 9.
No, it’s a PR move. Why would anyone use Firefox 12.0 when Chrome is so obviously more advanced with a fast release cycle sitting at version 120+?
Backing this up with some history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history
Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, and it took until March 2011 to get to version 4.0. Then by the end of 2011, they were on version 9.