I'd want to know which I was doing in advance because sites or plugins I'm relying on might be broken for a while after a major update.Ĭhrome and Firefox's sudden switch to ludicrous versioning is nothing but a cynical ploy to make themselves seem more mature than IE and Safari (even though they're much younger) because they have bigger version numbers. Tip: If you are using a Windows computer then press 'Windows Key + H' to open the browsing history tab. Alternatively, you can click on 'More' followed 'History' then again 'History'. There's a difference between installing a security patch and upgrading to a new browser engine. Launch Google Chrome and press Command + Y to open the browsing history panel. I downloaded the free version malware software recommended by Apple - didn't work completely. Then I was able to set my default search engine to, but it just looked like I changing the setting. Even OSX itself follows this pattern pretty consistently, (with occasional exceptions like adding the Mac App Store as a maintenance release). I've googled many times and manually removed files - didn't remove the 'searchmine' default search engine and 'managed by organization'.
You can quibble about exactly what goes in each division, but it's generally pretty obvious when an update is major or minor. Maintenance update (Bug fix or very minor feature)
Look at Apple's own apps for example - they're mostly in single digit major releases because they follow the industry standard of What do you mean there's no good way to choose? Everybody else manages to use the convention well enough.
