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Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by lewisl9029 on Friday August 21, 2015 @01:04PM (#10098826)
This was true for me until the most recent major version (42.x) that broke the Tree Style Tabs extension. My whole browsing workflow depends heavily on that extension, so I had to revert to using the stable version for now.
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by the8472 on Friday August 21, 2015 @03:05PM (#10099589)
Extensions breakage is not the same as low browser stability though.

Keeping things working is not solely the task of mozilla devs, extension developers have to do their part too.

Sometimes it's easy easy as toggling off some experimental feature or installing a beta build of that extension.

At other times you'll have to report a bug yourself.

And sometimes extensions just die because they're unmaintained. It happens eventually.

That's nothing unique to developer edition. You're just more likely to see something that'll trickle down to release builds soon anyway.

Personally I've managed to live with some annoyances on nightly for a few weeks until they got fixed.

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by ivank on Saturday August 22, 2015 @10:39AM (#10102603)
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab master works fine; you just have to clone it and replace extensions/[email protected] in your profile.
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by mft on Friday August 21, 2015 @01:45PM (#10099071)
I also used to rely pretty heavily on Tree Style Tabs. With the release of 42 I've been using tab groups (cmd+shift+e) with pretty satisfactory results.

e: cmd+shift+e assumes a Mac. Not sure what other systems use.

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by mitchty on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:02PM (#10099185)
Hmm, i'll have to try that thanks for the heads up.

Losing tree style tabs in 42 has made me nervous, it was the primary reason I love firefox. Without that most of the why in using firefox goes away for me.

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by reitanqild on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:31PM (#10099377)
Tried Pale Moon?[0] And no, I am not affiliated in any way just a happy user that assumes more users are better then fewer users.

[0]:https://www.palemoon.org

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by CyberShadow on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:22PM (#10101134)
Pale Moon's stance on pdf.js makes me very nervous:

https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml#features

As I understand, the author's opinion is that Adobe Reader is more secure than pdf.js. I'm not sure I would trust them with maintaining a secure browser in light of that.

Their monetization model is also questionable (I understand it injects ads / referral links).

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by Springtime on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:51PM (#10101175)
> Their monetization model is also questionable (I understand it injects ads / referral links).

Any source for that? A quick search didn't turn up anything and seeing as Pale Moon is now on my shortlist of Firefox alternatives I'd be interested.

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by CyberShadow on Friday August 21, 2015 @10:09PM (#10101206)
Sorry, I might have been confused there, looking at where I thought I read that I see it's just the default search engine:

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7818

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by CyberShadow on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:43AM (#10102475)
Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by mitchty on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:39PM (#10099447)
Never heard of it, quick scan of the page seems to indicate that it is windows/linux only though? I did a quick look at the download page and didn't see an osx build.

That is overall fine but I like to keep my browsers portable across all of my primary operating systems.

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by reitanqild on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:55PM (#10099525)
Yeah, that's kind of my only advantage for not liking Mac (wish I did:).

Still, it is just a forked Firefox so it uses the same extensions etc for now, maybe using FF on Mac and PM on the other platforms would be possible?

Re:The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons by richardboegli on Friday August 21, 2015 @03:00PM (#10099556)