Literally the same reason why Ford sells 150s and 250s and Volvo sells 70s and 90s: They are different products and don’t base the numbers on their competitor.
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MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Why is Firefox 4 or 3 versions ahead of Chromium versions (Edge, Chrome)?
raltoid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
3abas@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Actually, Firefox version numbers were totally independent for most of their history, but Mozilla recently adjusted them to roughly align with Chromium versions to reduce confusion for developers.
2004 - Firefox 1.0, no Chrome yet 2010 - Firefox 4.0, Chrome around version 8 2011 - Firefox switches to rapid releases 2020 - Firefox and Chrome both around version 85, just by coincidence 2024 - Firefox jumps from 124 to 126 to align with Chrome 126 2025 - Firefox 126+, Chrome 126+, version numbers now track similarly
lemming741@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Probably more like AMD naming processors XP, moving to 3 digits to match Intel, and stuffing AI into the model name.
Hell, even the Linux kernel is not immune
bvoigtlaender@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Why is Sony 1000XM1 versions ahead of Apple?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Why are the buses different colours?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Why is Chrome 121 versions ahead of Android?
towerful@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Windows 11 and OSX are so outdated
graff@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Os 10 26 is coming later this year. Make it make sense
henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
Not everything is Chrome just yet. We still have Gecko and Webkit holding on.
audaxdreik@pawb.social 13 hours ago
All the downvotes here kinda got me legit angry. Incurious fools and jokers.
It’s not a complete answer, but it’s partially because the development of Chrome and Firefox have always been highly competitive resulting in them both adopting rapid release cycles around the same time in the early 2010’s.
I haven’t read too much into the topic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one. Similar to how Microsoft didn’t want to release an XBox 2 in competition with a PlayStation 3.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Development
These are just the Wikipedia links, but there is interesting discussion of development history to be had, here.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Incurious fools
I haven’t read too much into the topic
sigh…
audaxdreik@pawb.social 5 hours ago
That’s my disclaimer that my research on the topic was less than exhaustive when I posted it at midnight, smartass. I then when on to offer a legitimate, if simple answer with sources that I linked. I see now the error of my ways in trying to provider a sincere answer to a question instead of posting the same tired dunk as everyone else.
I have learned the error of my ways and will carry this lesson with me into the future as we build this Lemmy community.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
smartass
I can sit on ice cream and tell you the flavour.
Sincerely though - I was just being an ass. I didn’t intend any actual offense. I Apologize. And I am not one of those downvotes.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I haven’t read too much into the topic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one.
Version numbering has no implications on development. Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.
audaxdreik@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Version numbering has no implications on development.
I understand that, so then why change it?
Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.
This does not appear to be true.
That blog post has an aura of marketing speak around it.
Version numbering has no implication on development and doesn’t even need to align internally and publicly, so somewhere a conscious decision was made to do it this way for “reasons”. I conjecture those reasons are at least partially due to marketing. Is this not fair?
candyman337@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Because it’s a completely separate codebase that is not chrome based