EDIT: seems this thread is dead and discussion happens at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131675 > "We pla

EDIT: seems this thread is dead and discussion happens at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131675 > "We plan to keep [the Aurora population] on a separate “pre-beta” update channel as compared to the rest of the Beta population. We will use this pre-beta audience to test and improve the stability and quality of initial Beta builds until we are ready to push to 100% of beta population. Because we presented Aurora as a stable product in the past, the beta channel is the closest in terms of stability and quality." Uh, doesn't adding a pre-beta channel defeat the initial purpose of getting rid of the existing pre-beta channel?! If Aurora is a dead weight channel ("Aurora was to be the first stabilization channel having a user base 10x the size of Nightly so as to provide additional user feedback. This original intent never materialized.") and Mozilla's getting rid of it, why not effectively assume the decision to get rid of it and let users migrate to either Beta (by default) or Nightly (for the more adventurous)?