[ck2]

Yeah but they used to mean something which is hard to unlearn.

Now I just mentally shift them to the right so they are minor version numbers in my head:

ie. 1.6 1.7 1.8 etc. and then I can deal with it.

But 3.x to 6 is a big jump. Took me an entire weekend of fiddling, tweaking and lots of googling and research to replace extensions and get everything just right.

[drivebyacct2]

Yeah, I wish the numbers didn't matter. I love that Chrome auto updates and I never see an extension update dialog box pop up. I love that I don't have to hack XPI zips to change the manifest to allow installation (the instructions for getting Firefox to ignore version checks are no longer accurate for the latest version).

I think they're working on the new extension framework to allow reboot-less installs, etc, but their extension developers aren't adopting them quickly enough.