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The beauty of the standard approach is that it makes it easy to understand the importance of any particular update, from the present back through the entire history of the application. This was a big one, that one just added a few minor features, this other one merely fixed some underlying bugs, and so on.

With Mozilla's approach, every new version of Firefox looks like it's a big deal until you read the release notes and realize that it's yet another minor release. What happens if they ever actually have a big release? Will everyone have to guess that the jump from 21 to 22 was just massive, while the move from 20 to 21 and from 22 to 23 were really minor?

Perhaps it's not directly related, but Firefox's share of the browser market has slowly declined since Mozilla first released Firefox 4 in 2010 and started down the path of small releases masquerading as large ones.

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