How Chrome & Firefox are Winning the Browser War - Cheating with Version Numbers

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Several weeks ago, Mozilla released its Firefox browser 5.0. Being a techie and a geek that I am, I hurried to download the beta version and try it out. To my surprise, I downloaded the 4.x edition. Or so I thought.

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Normal people, and guess what guys that isn't us, don't care about or even notice version numbers.

Chrome is winning by getting a lot of people to try it, and then being a better experience than the persons old browser. Doesn't sound like cheating to me.

This article is beyond useless. Firefox and Chrome are winning the browser wars by making a better browser. Part of that is constantly updating and improving which are the source of version numbers.

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