Chrome is a pretty spankin' good browser, but it's version number system has bugged me, like theyre only doing it to seem like they make advances quicker than other browser vendors.
Not true. The core elements of the number are major and minor. Major represents a new stable release from the trunk. Minor is a subsequent release from that branch. We almost never do minor. The notable exception was 4.1, which came off the 4.0 branch.
We don't emphasize version numbers in our marketing because consumers are almost never aware of what version of the browser they're running other than "latest". Do you know what version of GMail you're using? Neither do I. With this in mind we chose a predictable versioning scheme even if it's somewhat unconventional in the world of desktop software.
