Quote Originally Posted by Pontos View Post
Sure, but call it FF4.1 (which, ironically enough, is exactly what it was called before the name and development scheme change), not FF5...

This is pretty much what Saaya and XSAlliN pointed. This new naming scheme is just a marketing move to fish the average unsavvy people that gets interested in a product when it has a noticeable change in its numbering.
We have to "thank" Google Chrome for that indeed.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for this new pace in development, releasing more often with an smaller amount of additions and changes.
What I'm against is that they are bumping the mayor version in each of those. It completely devalues the meaning of having a new mayor version.
FireFox has been out since 2004 and is only on version 4, Chrome came out very recently and is already on version 11, making it undeniably superior.