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Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by causality0 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:58AM (#24166928)
Exactly my point. Mozilla used a rational numbering scheme where the larger the change, the larger the increment, with full integers being reserved for major changes. Then Chrome started changing its integer every few weeks and Firefox upended its own scheme to keep from looking unfashionable.
Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by ansible on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:13AM (#24167014)
Between auto-updates and the numbers changing very often, I'm not even slightly aware of the current version numbers for Chrome or Firefox.
Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by forgotpwd16 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:30AM (#24167431)
For a rolling-release model like this a scheme could include the date released, e.g. Firefox 20.07.x which is also used by Linux distros. Right now version numbers are pretty useless.
Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by gspr on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:12AM (#24168019)
Version numbers aren't useless. It's just that there's an insane fad going around that only the latest iteration of something is suppose to be used.