Re:Mozilla Firefox Add-On Signing Update
by superkuh on Saturday January 23, 2016 @04:42AM
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It's official. Aurora is explicitly alpha. When they bump the version number Nightly turns into Aurora turns into Beta turns into Release.
Re:Mozilla Firefox Add-On Signing Update
by awalGarg on Saturday January 23, 2016 @06:05AM
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Well I meant, do you happen to have a link stating that? :)
> When they bump the version number Nightly turns into Aurora turns into Beta turns into Release.
Not exactly. I guess you intentionally (over-)simplified that? Firefox actually follows trainspotting for their different release channels: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/trainspotting-firefox-37-d...
Re:Mozilla Firefox Add-On Signing Update
by reubenmorais on Saturday January 23, 2016 @09:41AM
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They are right. Here's a link: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases#Upcoming_Releases
Aurora is alpha, but FWIW, I've been using Nightly as my main browser for over 4 years now without ever losing data, so Aurora should be more than fine.
Excuse my ignorance, but is this official? I use FF Dev edition as my primary browser and it is very stable for me.
Context, if it helps: I am a web dev most of the time, and my browser usage is almost always >100 tabs or so. More than half of those have the devtools open all the time (each of which basically count as another instance of Firefox). My machine is pretty modest (i5, dual core, 8gigs RAM). I don't use many extensions though. Only a lightweight custom theme and greasemonkey + lots of custom userscripts. Reason I use dev edition is because it has more devtools goodies and ES6 features. Nothing related to extension development.