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(Unverified)Aug 12th 2009 4:45PM
Chrome may get to 4.0 before Firefox, but that doesn't mean it will be anywhere close to being on par with Firefox. Don't get me wrong, I love Chrome(and use it), but the major version bumping seems a bit sketchy to me. Then placed in front of the average user they are more likely going to go after Chrome 4.0 before they'll consider Firefox 3.5, on paper it just sounds better. I think its just a ploy to gain browser share. I just hope Mozilla doesn't play this game, Firefox's version numbers to me have always been an accurate representation of features added and bugs fixed, they've always been dedicated to building a good browser rather than trying to make something that sounds better than it actually is.
techpopsAug 12th 2009 8:07PM
So Google are playing a game to make their product look better, can hardly blame them for that. For me, Google destroyed the whole idea of what a beta stood for anyway so it doesn't really surprise me.
Also if you try and compare to Firefox to Chrome and vice versa, it's pretty obvious that Firefox will come out ahead. It's had so much more development time. What's really cool about Chrome is how its cobbled together Webkit, some ideas that have already proven to work well and pulled a great design all together into a new browser that does stand up well against the competition.
Given time I'm sure Google will innovate with the browser in all kinds of directions and Mozilla or extension coders can tap into those cool ideas so everyone kinda benefits in the end.