Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC, has praised Mozilla's more frequent release plans for Firefox, which he saw as a reaction to Chrome's rapid schedule.

"Chrome's development model has been a successful experiment in terms of getting production releases with improvements and new features out quickly and much faster than in the past," Hilwa said last month. "I think this is causing waves in the industry, most specifically for direct competitors."

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