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Firefox went to faster release schedules to keep pace with the updates Google puts out for Chrome. What this means is that there are generally fewer things changed per release. I don't like Firefox's version numbering as many updates don't warrant a new primary version number.
Chrome:
8.0.552 - 2 December, 2010
9.0.597 - 3 February, 2011
10.0.648 - 8 March, 2011
11.0.696 - 27 March, 2011
12.0.742 - 7 June, 2011
13.0.782 - 2 August, 2011
14.0.835 - 16 September, 2011
15.0.874 - 15 September, 2011
16.0.891 - 22 September, 2011
That's right, according to Wikipedia, version 15 came out a day before version 14.
I was using Firefox 3.6 up until this week and was really only six months behind. Given my usual upgrade of wait for version n.1 to come out I was only three months behind.
The problem with the Chrome and now Firefox release schedules and version numbers is that we've lost the indicator of the significance of a release and it makes it more difficult to determine when a company should move to the new version given constraints with projects and testing cycles.
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