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It is not acceptable to suggest using an alpha/beta as a main daily driver. You may not encounter bugs but they certainly do exist. There's a reason that the de
by superkuh 6y ago
It is not acceptable to suggest using an alpha/beta as a main daily driver. You may not encounter bugs but they certainly do exist. There's a reason that the developer edition is not the release edition. And yes, developer edition is an alpha/beta. Specifically it's the renamed aurora channel which was the renamed alpha. But these days it functions as more of a beta.
- rockdoe 6y agoI think it's quite reasonable to suggest power users to use such a specific version. Especially as the signing is presumably to prevent non-power users from getting malicious ones, which is a real problem. As you admit, the Developer edition is very stable and from the name targeted at exactly the kind of people that want to run their custom extensions. It's not like Minefield nightlies back in the day!
- badsectoracula 6y agoFWIW i've been using developer edition for a long while now so that i can run my own extensions without having to ask for Mozilla's permission and never had any issues. The main annoyance is that it wants to update every other day but that is a minor thing.
- superkuh 6y agoI'm curious, what operating system do you use? Because I have run into a lot of developer edition crashes on linux over the years re: webgl and all that fancy stuff that isn't normally enabled in release.
- badsectoracula 6y agoWindows 10. TBH i very rarely visit any site with WebGL (that i know of), though it does seem to work by visiting some shadertoy pages.