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And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mo

And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

JohnTHaller 9y ago
Not necessarily. Developer is the beta channel, after all, so many of us use Firefox stable as our primary. I use my various PortableApps.com packages to run separate channels without impacting each other for testing sites.
- Viper007Bond 9y ago
  I use Developer as my only browser. Never had any issues. It's not a buggy alpha version or something.
  - JohnBooty 9y ago
    Even FF Nightly works perfectly well as a day to day browser for me. And I use it all day every day.
    - discreditable 9y ago
      Nightly is surprisingly stable. In my past few years of using it, there have only been a few days when it has been unusable. On those days I just used Chrome. The e10s transition was pretty rough. It was common for every tab to crash at once, and sometimes there were long delays for tabs to paint when switching.
mdellabitta 9y ago
You can't disable telemetry in the Developer Edition for some reason, so I've gone back to Stable.
- kuschku 9y ago
  The official response — I asked — isthat by downloading dev or nightly you "automatically opt-in" into telemetry, because no one would download these "if they didn't want to help developing Firefox". I've simply replaced all URLs in abou:config with https://example.invalid/ https://example.invalid/, that makes sure telemetry is off.
  - mdellabitta 9y ago
    Interesting. Too bad Tracking Protection doesn't apply to Mozilla as well. ;)
  - Sylos 9y ago
    Do you remember when you asked that, roughly? The DevEdition used to just be a dub for Aurora, a.k.a. the Alpha channel. And from that viewpoint it does sort of makes sense to enforce telemetry, as that's the whole point of providing Beta/Alpha/Nightly builds. (Not sure, if it really needs to be enforced, but it does cost them money to provide the download infrastructure for all the people using those builds and if they don't get usage data back, that's costing them money.) With the Alpha channel gone (the DevEdition is now based on the Beta channel) and the DevEdition really being specifically built for webdevs, it does not make sense to enforce telemetry there, and it might very well just be an oversight that they haven't changed that in the DevEdition build.

And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

JohnTHaller 9y ago

Not necessarily. Developer is the beta channel, after all, so many of us use Firefox stable as our primary. I use my various PortableApps.com packages to run separate channels without impacting each other for testing sites.

Viper007Bond 9y ago
I use Developer as my only browser. Never had any issues. It's not a buggy alpha version or something.
- JohnBooty 9y ago
  Even FF Nightly works perfectly well as a day to day browser for me. And I use it all day every day.
  - discreditable 9y ago
    Nightly is surprisingly stable. In my past few years of using it, there have only been a few days when it has been unusable. On those days I just used Chrome. The e10s transition was pretty rough. It was common for every tab to crash at once, and sometimes there were long delays for tabs to paint when switching.

mdellabitta 9y ago

You can't disable telemetry in the Developer Edition for some reason, so I've gone back to Stable.

kuschku 9y ago
The official response — I asked — isthat by downloading dev or nightly you "automatically opt-in" into telemetry, because no one would download these "if they didn't want to help developing Firefox". I've simply replaced all URLs in abou:config with https://example.invalid/ https://example.invalid/, that makes sure telemetry is off.
- mdellabitta 9y ago
  Interesting. Too bad Tracking Protection doesn't apply to Mozilla as well. ;)
- Sylos 9y ago
  Do you remember when you asked that, roughly? The DevEdition used to just be a dub for Aurora, a.k.a. the Alpha channel. And from that viewpoint it does sort of makes sense to enforce telemetry, as that's the whole point of providing Beta/Alpha/Nightly builds. (Not sure, if it really needs to be enforced, but it does cost them money to provide the download infrastructure for all the people using those builds and if they don't get usage data back, that's costing them money.) With the Alpha channel gone (the DevEdition is now based on the Beta channel) and the DevEdition really being specifically built for webdevs, it does not make sense to enforce telemetry there, and it might very well just be an oversight that they haven't changed that in the DevEdition build.