The Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation, following in the footsteps of Google’s Chrome Web browser, seems to believe that if they keep popping out new “major” releases every six weeks, they’ll convince people they’re better than the competition. That seemed like a dumb idea to me when Microsoft went from Word for Windows 2.0 to Word for Windows 6.0 back in 1993. The idea hasn’t improved any with age.

At least, in the case of Google Chrome, even though, there normally have been significant updates. Chrome 12, didn’t deserve its new major release number either although. In upcoming versions of Chrome that may change. For instance, We can look forward to Google building Skype-like video and Voice-over-Internet Protocol right into the browser. Firefox? Not so much.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about research and the business of research since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system

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