@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} }