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I think it really should not prompt to be the default browser when you launch it (and maybe never show this prompt like Chrome Canary). A colleague had a weird

I think it really should not prompt to be the default browser when you launch it (and maybe never show this prompt like Chrome Canary). A colleague had a weird race condition (I guess) with this prompt + the "how-to" overlays and Firefox Developer Edition stopped responding to clicks 3 seconds after launching it… Kudos for using a different profile than the classic Firefox/Nightly :)

trvz 12y ago
At installation, there's also a checkbox to set it as the default browser, and it's pre-checked. I think, even full-time web developers wouldn't want to set it as default, and Mozilla should retain themselves here.
- craigds 12y ago
  FWIW I'm using it as my default browser. Maybe it's just me, but a developer browser is more than just for debugging websites. I really like the way they've customised certain things to be power-user-friendly (e.g. no patronising "Show Advanced Settings" buttons) I've always used the bleeding edge Aurora and Chrome, have never had substantial problems with that.
publicfig 12y ago
I had the same issue, the overlays hid the message and I wasn't able to tell that the default browser message was there in the first place (OS X)
- rurounijones 12y ago
  Same issue, luckily was able figure out what was going on.