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		nirvdrum on April 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux 4.0 Web browsers break backwards-compatibility all the time. They use the major version number bump to justify it. I gave up trying to keep a Firefox extension I wrote up-to-date since the API changed every 6 weeks. I think it's settled down a bit since the early days, but the reason they bump the major version number is so they can break things.

zanny on April 13, 2015 [–]

I meant more in terms of they don't break the standards they implement, they just add more on, but yeah mechanically its a misnomer.

nirvdrum on April 13, 2015 | [–]

Gotcha. Outside of extension devs, it probably doesn't matter. But I figured I'd mention it.

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