Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
by outworlder on Friday August 21, 2015 @12:38PM
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Are you sure you are a 'power user', then?
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I'm not sure what you mean, but are you suggesting that if I'm a savvy driver I should just drive prototype cars?
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
by nightski on Friday August 21, 2015 @01:05PM
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Are you suggesting that the developer edition is merely a prototype and not a production browser?
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
by czinck on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:03PM
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According to a comment lower down, Developer Edition is on the alpha branch, so yes, it is a prototype.
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
by nightski on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:44PM
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I don't think prototype is fair. A prototype is a proof of concept. Just because something is in beta or even alpha shape doesn't make it that.
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
by fernandotakai on Friday August 21, 2015 @03:51PM
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i tried running firefox developer for a while and since it's based on the alpha code, it broke all my extensions on each update. so yeah, i'm a power user (i run 3 custom extensions that i wrote, pentadactyl and dotjs) but it's not feasible for me to keep running developer.