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Is there a clear guide as to what differs between Developer Edition and regular Firefox? The home-page for the Developer Edition project seems to mostly cite t

Is there a clear guide as to what differs between Developer Edition and regular Firefox? The home-page for the Developer Edition project seems to mostly cite the inclusion of devtools, though these are of course present in the standard version.

ghqst 3y ago
Developer edition is dark mode by default and updates way more often than standard Firefox. Besides that I'm not really sure.
highwind 3y ago
> All the latest developer tools in beta, plus experimental features like the Multi-line Console Editor and WebSocket Inspector. (from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/) This is the biggest difference: Beta dev tool and experimental features.
- jtvjan 3y ago
  That must be pretty outdated, because I'm on Firefox ESR and I have used the multi-line console editor and WebSocket inspector.
- tentacleuno 3y ago
  The multi-line console editor is already on stable for me, at least. It's quite good; definitely recommend trying it out.
superkuh 3y ago
Originally it was called the "alpha" build if that wording makes more sense to you. Over the years it's been renamed to "aurora" and now finally "developer". But the gist is that it is an alpha with all that implies. I would not use developer for my daily driver.
- sebazzz 3y ago
  I've used it as my daily driver for a very long time. It's very stable and think based on beta given the version number.
ascorbic 3y ago
It tracks the beta channel, and has a few different defaults.
user3939382 3y ago
I use the two just for mental separation between work and personal. You can use tab containers etc but it’s nice have a different icon and app.
- alyandon 3y ago
  I really wish Firefox had the equivalent of Chromium's profile manager instead of having to rely on passing in command line parameters to force the profile selector to appear on start. Easily selecting an entirely separate profile from within the browser just seems like the right way to handle this from a UX perspective.
  - user3939382 3y ago
    I think I’ve seen a way to expose this within the UI, maybe it was through an add on. If I find it later I’ll update my comment. * May have been remembering this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
  - mdaniel 3y ago
    I don't know when it appeared, but navigating to about:profiles shows - Create a New Profile - a list of the existing profiles - - for each one of those, a "Launch profile in a New Browser" button for any one that isn't already running along with "Rename" and "Remove" buttons, so that feels about as full-featured a management screen as one could ask for. The only(?) user-hostile behavior is having to know that about: URL
snthd 3y ago
You can configure developer edition to install unsigned addons.

ghqst 3y ago

Developer edition is dark mode by default and updates way more often than standard Firefox. Besides that I'm not really sure.

highwind 3y ago

> All the latest developer tools in beta, plus experimental features like the Multi-line Console Editor and WebSocket Inspector. (from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/) This is the biggest difference: Beta dev tool and experimental features.

jtvjan 3y ago
That must be pretty outdated, because I'm on Firefox ESR and I have used the multi-line console editor and WebSocket inspector.
tentacleuno 3y ago
The multi-line console editor is already on stable for me, at least. It's quite good; definitely recommend trying it out.

superkuh 3y ago

Originally it was called the "alpha" build if that wording makes more sense to you. Over the years it's been renamed to "aurora" and now finally "developer". But the gist is that it is an alpha with all that implies. I would not use developer for my daily driver.

sebazzz 3y ago
I've used it as my daily driver for a very long time. It's very stable and think based on beta given the version number.

ascorbic 3y ago

It tracks the beta channel, and has a few different defaults.

user3939382 3y ago

I use the two just for mental separation between work and personal. You can use tab containers etc but it’s nice have a different icon and app.

alyandon 3y ago
I really wish Firefox had the equivalent of Chromium's profile manager instead of having to rely on passing in command line parameters to force the profile selector to appear on start. Easily selecting an entirely separate profile from within the browser just seems like the right way to handle this from a UX perspective.
- user3939382 3y ago
  I think I’ve seen a way to expose this within the UI, maybe it was through an add on. If I find it later I’ll update my comment. * May have been remembering this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
- mdaniel 3y ago
  I don't know when it appeared, but navigating to about:profiles shows - Create a New Profile - a list of the existing profiles - - for each one of those, a "Launch profile in a New Browser" button for any one that isn't already running along with "Rename" and "Remove" buttons, so that feels about as full-featured a management screen as one could ask for. The only(?) user-hostile behavior is having to know that about: URL

snthd 3y ago

You can configure developer edition to install unsigned addons.