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But why have they chosen to version their software like this, in contrast to every other browser? They could have gone with even numbered point releases.

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As per the last paragraph of this post: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/07/release-early-release-often...

"Please don’t read too much into the pace of version number changes - they just mean we are moving through release cycles and we are geared up to get fresher releases into your hands!"

Thanks, but that actually addresses how they will be moving the whole version numbers up even faster than before, not how they've chosen to use whole version numbers to represent fairly minor milestones, in contrast to established practices.

Would you prefer Linux/SunOS-like version numbers where the major version never increments? When you do a release every 6-8 weeks, they're all going to be minor.

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