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		farnsworth on Feb 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the en... Yes, Chrome, to avoid changing major versions.

ck2 on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

LoL, okay so they will go back to IE8 for infinity.

Do Chrome major version number changes break their plugins?

I don't understand this rush to double-digit version numbers.

Do they think because IE is at version 9 that newbie users will also want their other browser to be at version 9 ?

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