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Hello Sir, Pardon me if this is a silly question, but in the about:config page of Firefox Developer Edition the value for app.update.channel is aurora. But AFA

Hello Sir, Pardon me if this is a silly question, but in the about:config page of Firefox Developer Edition the value for app.update.channel is aurora. But AFAIK, the aurora channel was stopped since April 18th of this month. This is the screenshot : https://imgur.com/r5Kcqb3 https://imgur.com/r5Kcqb3

KwanEsq 9y ago
The aurora tree/part of the release cycle has gone away, but dev edition needs a separate update channel from beta, and was already using "aurora", so it was obviously less work to keep the name around just for the channel rather than rename it (and that might have prevented keeping existing dev edition users getting updates) (So the _channel_ didn't actually ever go away, it just changed which tree it drew from) (Tree being synonymous with "code repository" throughout this comment)
callahad 9y ago
Aurora used to be a separate pre-beta, post-nightly release channel: Release <--- Beta <--- Aurora <--- Nightly In 2014, we rebranded Aurora builds to "Developer Edition" to give it better visibility and ship experimental features that we thought would be interesting to web and add-on developers. Earlier this year, we sped up our time-to-release by removing Aurora from the pipeline, but we kept it as a separate channel roughly at parity with Beta: Release <--- Beta <--- Nightly Aurora <--' Which is where things are today.
- sudeepto_dutta 9y ago
  Thanks for the reply sir. I have one more question. I was very excited to use quantum, so ended up using developer edition. I am using it on my macOS High Sierra. The battery usage and Energy impact that I observed from Activity Monitor application in macOS was very surprising. Both parameters were quite high and the battery was draining very quickly. I don't have the screenshot. I tried searching for a solution like tinkering the about:config fields etc. but couldn't find any.

KwanEsq 9y ago

The aurora tree/part of the release cycle has gone away, but dev edition needs a separate update channel from beta, and was already using "aurora", so it was obviously less work to keep the name around just for the channel rather than rename it (and that might have prevented keeping existing dev edition users getting updates) (So the _channel_ didn't actually ever go away, it just changed which tree it drew from) (Tree being synonymous with "code repository" throughout this comment)

callahad 9y ago

Aurora used to be a separate pre-beta, post-nightly release channel: Release <--- Beta <--- Aurora <--- Nightly In 2014, we rebranded Aurora builds to "Developer Edition" to give it better visibility and ship experimental features that we thought would be interesting to web and add-on developers. Earlier this year, we sped up our time-to-release by removing Aurora from the pipeline, but we kept it as a separate channel roughly at parity with Beta: Release <--- Beta <--- Nightly Aurora <--' Which is where things are today.

sudeepto_dutta 9y ago
Thanks for the reply sir. I have one more question. I was very excited to use quantum, so ended up using developer edition. I am using it on my macOS High Sierra. The battery usage and Energy impact that I observed from Activity Monitor application in macOS was very surprising. Both parameters were quite high and the battery was draining very quickly. I don't have the screenshot. I tried searching for a solution like tinkering the about:config fields etc. but couldn't find any.