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For a company that was legendary for their perpetual "beta" web apps, they sure do increment those release version numbers on their browser awfully quickly.
by Legion 16y ago
For a company that was legendary for their perpetual "beta" web apps, they sure do increment those release version numbers on their browser awfully quickly.
- js2 16y agoThey are just numbers. Here's how it works. The version number is four parts: major.minor.build.patch. major.minor are used for each significant release and are set for marketing purposes. They are currently on a 12-week release cycle, where major is updated for each cycle. build.patch are used for engineering purposes. They update the build value daily on trunk. Periodically, they create a release branch from trunk. On release branches, the build portion of the version is fixed and the patch value is incremented daily. So for example, the upcoming release will be 9.0.597.something. Typically it takes them a couple weeks to get from beta to stable, so I expect 9.0 stable to be something like 9.0.597.33. But, as I said, they're just numbers. :-)
- steve19 16y agoThey may be numbers, but each new number has awesome new features.
- spydez 16y agoI wonder if they'll slow down on the major version now that they've "caught up" to IE...
- wmf 16y agoNope, they sped up to one version number every 6 weeks. Maybe they're trying to catch up to Emacs.
- toolate 16y agoI can't imagine the branding looks as good for Chrome 23.0 as it does for single digits. Maybe they'll switch to code names.
- sjs 16y agoVersion numbers aren't very prominent for "regular" users. I don't think they really care about branding or marketing the version.
- natrius 16y agoNo one cares about version numbers for web apps because you're always running the latest version. Since Chrome updates automatically, I think people will eventually treat it similarly. Instead of announcing a new version of Chrome, Google will just announce new features in Chrome that everyone using the browser will have. I don't think they'll ever refer to "Chrome 20" in public.
- aboodman 16y agoWe already do this. Note that the public blog post does not contain the character "9" anywhere in it. It's only bloggers that insist on referring to the versions :)
- InclinedPlane 16y agoExactly, I'm getting tired of this line of argument. The major version number of chrome is virtually hidden from users. Unlike other browsers there is never branding or logos featuring the major version number and there are never big press releases trumpeting a change of version. Perhaps some day bloggers and commenters will finally notice this and give these lame arguments a rest.