Talk about an uptick in “production”. Google announced via the Chromium Blog yesterday that their browser love child — Chrome — is going to be getting a serious kick in the development department. Instead of waiting many weeks to several months between big updates, six weeks will now be the maximum standard wait time. With that type of speed, we’ll be talking about Chrome 9.0 before the year’s out!
Google Chrome program manager Anthony Laforge goes on to say that while these major 6-week updates will feature a new release number (ex: 6.0, 7.0, 8,0), consumers shouldn’t get too hung up on the actual number itself, for the real motivation is to get updates (large or small) into the hands of end users as fast as possible. It’ll certainly be interesting to see Google’s increased workload play out, especially next to someone such as Microsoft — someone whom you can measure major browser revisions in years.
Bring it on Google!
