@conference {1312,
	title = {A tale of two browsers},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th working conference on Mining software repositories - MSR {\textquoteright}11},
	year = {2011},
	month = {05/2011},
	pages = {238-241},
	publisher = {ACM Press},
	organization = {ACM Press},
	address = {New York, New York, USA},
	abstract = {We explore the space of open source systems and their user communities by examining the development artifact histories of two popular web browsers -- Firefox and Chrome -- as well as usage data. By examining the data and addressing a number of research questions, two very different profiles emerge: Firefox, as the older and established system, with long product version cycles but short bug fix cycles, and a user base that is slow to adopt newer versions; and Chrome, as the new and fast evolving system, with short version cycles, longer bug fix cycles, and a user base that very quickly adopts new versions as they become available (due largely to Chrome{\textquoteright}s mandatory automatic updates).

},
	keywords = {chrome, development history, Firefox, msr challenge},
	isbn = {9781450305747},
	doi = {10.1145/1985441.1985481},
	author = {Davis, Ian and Godfrey, Michael W. and Baysal, Olga}
}
