Google Chrome's {V16} breakneck pace: innovation or version inflation

Summary: Delivering two new packages every calendar quarter and assigning a major version number to each one makes it appear that Google is innovating at lightning speed while its rivals plod along. But what’s really inside those releases? Is Google just practicing version number inflation?

According to the About dialog box, my installation of Google Chrome just rolled over to version 16. When the year began, it was on version 8.

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