Ok, I'm making a big deal out of nothing, most people don't like upgrading software either cause they don't see the need, or just forget about it.
Not me though, I need to see changes, I need to keep track of what's been done to improve it, either visually or in functionality.
This is specifically true for major browser versions. Opera 11 came out? I was all over it, testing out all the new things. IE9? Hell, I even started using Windows more just to use it. Firefox 4, hells yeah, I'm there!!! Chrome... um... 9? 10? 11? (Clicking wrench menu... about Google Chrome, ah...), yes, 10! When I downloaded it it was version 6!!! What the hell happened to 7, 8 and 9!!!
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| I use Chromium in Linux, Chrome in Windows :) |
Ok, I'm lying a little, I did know when it bumped versions each time, but not cause the browser told me, but because I usually read blogs that post about those kind of things, with new changes and stuff. I have to depend on blogs to tell me when a new version of Chrome is out, I mean, I COULD just go to the About Google Chrome menu every day and see if it changed, but come on, even if I remembered to do it, out of principle I wouldn't do it.
And I know most of the changes done in those versions, but sometimes I just stumble upon them unwillingly, like in what versions did the preferences change to a tab? In what version did the Web Store appear? In what version did Instant become an option of the omnibar? In what version did it include Flash sandboxed? In what version did it include a PDF reader?
Still... I use it as my main browser, cause in the end, that stuff doesn't matter, I feel comfortable using it, and suits all my needs, so yeah :) (I'm posting this on Opera 11.10 cause it just got released a couple of days ago, so I have to use it, haha)

2 comments:
Awesome! haha you would die here at my work. We are light years behind of the consumer market. You can't change ANYTHING!! Without prior testing, thorough testing. Because there old apps that break if you update IE, or even adobe reader!! So yeah...
Apparently I dont know you cause I had no idea you were such a browser geek! like major geek! you take the award, my friend :P
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