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I understand it's a bit superficial to re-enforce the common sense rejoinder discussed at the end about not using developer builds. - but isn't the idea of usi

I understand it's a bit superficial to re-enforce the common sense rejoinder discussed at the end about not using developer builds. - but isn't the idea of using a developer build at least partly an issue of wanting to discover bugs like these and report them, as opposed to just getting access to the latest and greatest new features? You know, so you make a contribution to the cause? It is annoying though that an install of both chrome devs and the ie9 betas overwrite the stable versions. The firefox beta at least installed elsewhere so I can easily use the old version if I like without having to dick around with it.

brianpan 16y ago
From the blog post: >How the hell can a program at this level of maturity have such a massive problem... Because it's a dev build! Do people really need to be reminded of that! Dev builds are for developers! So what if the FF dev build is more stable? Both sites explicitly say they are unstable and for testing only. To have a problem and blame the dev build is insane. Any "self-respecting geek" should know that.
- grovulent 16y ago
  Yeah - I was using the Chrome dev for a while. It was so stable for so long that I completely forgot I was using it. Then one day some weird stuff started happening. I got all upset and ranty like the guy from this article until finally my higher mind said: 'it's a dev build you fool!' - I felt stupid and went back to stable. At least I came to my senses eventually.... before I had written some rantox that had made it to the top of hacker news... <thank god>
  - jaden 16y ago
    At least you were smart enough to call yourself a fool before someone else did it for you. I've been running Chrome dev for several months and have just about forgotten it's a dev. So far I haven't hit any major issues.
  - brianpan 16y ago
    That's what I don't get...he went to all that trouble of researching the 'problem' he lists the dev build, etc. I guess not everyone is familiar with what branching and releases are for.
- snotrockets 16y ago
  And since it's a dev build, when it fails, then a proper bug should be filed. Bitching about it on HN is counter productive (and karma-whorish, IMO)
  - fhars 16y ago
    And a rant wrapped in untested broken markup that lets the text end after three sentences with a big black banner saying "Make your own card at some spammy site" that you can't scoll past on mobile browsers... Classy, indeed.

brianpan 16y ago

From the blog post: >How the hell can a program at this level of maturity have such a massive problem... Because it's a dev build! Do people really need to be reminded of that! Dev builds are for developers! So what if the FF dev build is more stable? Both sites explicitly say they are unstable and for testing only. To have a problem and blame the dev build is insane. Any "self-respecting geek" should know that.

grovulent 16y ago
Yeah - I was using the Chrome dev for a while. It was so stable for so long that I completely forgot I was using it. Then one day some weird stuff started happening. I got all upset and ranty like the guy from this article until finally my higher mind said: 'it's a dev build you fool!' - I felt stupid and went back to stable. At least I came to my senses eventually.... before I had written some rantox that had made it to the top of hacker news... <thank god>
- jaden 16y ago
  At least you were smart enough to call yourself a fool before someone else did it for you. I've been running Chrome dev for several months and have just about forgotten it's a dev. So far I haven't hit any major issues.
- brianpan 16y ago
  That's what I don't get...he went to all that trouble of researching the 'problem' he lists the dev build, etc. I guess not everyone is familiar with what branching and releases are for.
snotrockets 16y ago
And since it's a dev build, when it fails, then a proper bug should be filed. Bitching about it on HN is counter productive (and karma-whorish, IMO)
- fhars 16y ago
  And a rant wrapped in untested broken markup that lets the text end after three sentences with a big black banner saying "Make your own card at some spammy site" that you can't scoll past on mobile browsers... Classy, indeed.