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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by abrowne on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:14PM (#13226552)
> FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta)

The Developer Edition replaced Aurora, which was the alpha release, one version between the beta and Nightly.

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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by lagadu on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:28AM (#13227632)
AKA: the alpha :)

Credit to them though, Aurora was surprisingly stable for most of its lifetime, despite not even being a beta.

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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by nicoburns on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:29AM (#13228333)
Even more impressive, the Nightly versions of both Chrome and Firefox are (almost always) stable enough for daily use. I use them as my everyday browsers at work, and they probably crash / have bugs about 1 day out of every 2 months.
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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by abrowne on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:43AM (#13228976)
Agreed. I started using Nightly — instead of my usually Beta¹ — for the up-to-date GTK+ 3.2x compatibility, but I like some of the pre-release features, and it almost never crashes on me

1: On Ubuntu you can use their Firefox Beta PPA² as long as you don't mind that it replaces release-version Firefox.

2: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-n...

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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by hashhar on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:23AM (#13236552)
I started using Nightly for kicks and giggle around 6 months ago and my about:crashes shows me only 6 crashes (none of which were able to kill anything more than a tab (and in all the cases, the offending website was YouTube)).

Nightly is amazingly good even if it is built from the HEAD of the trunk (branch in git terms).

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