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Google Chrome version number is meaningless as told by Google itself: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers...

This doesn't however mean that other browsers too have meaningless version numbers.



That link is an unofficial blog. Either way, the point stands though, they're still just arbitrary numbers. Back in the day when software was paid for by version number, an increase of 1.0 was a marketing tool that usually meant a significant update. Browsers are free and are beginning to implement auto-update which makes the version number of a browser even more insignificant.




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