It’s time to give Firefox another chance

Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by superkuh on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:41PM (#15369487)

Even worse, it's a walled garden. You can't edit or make your own extensions without getting each change approved by Mozilla first. They say to use the alpha(dev) or unbranded versions but the former is unstable and the later has no packaging or language support.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by floatboth on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:13PM (#15369699)

Yes, if you want to run unsigned addons, you need Dev or Nightly. That makes sense. Not letting "normal" users accidentally install malware extensions is really good.

"is unstable" isn't a good reason to avoid it. I've been using Nightly as my daily (heh) driver for a long time. It's been awesome.

BTW, approval is really fast now: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/09/21/review-wait-times...

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by superkuh on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:18AM (#15371531)

> Not letting "normal" users accidentally install

I strongly disagree. Browser functionality for everyone shouldn't be gimped to protect a small subset of users from themselves.

>"is unstable" isn't a good reason to avoid it.

I'm not holding a controversial opinion in thinking that alphas are generally buggy for significant subset of the userbase. I get that it might work fine for you but there's a reason aurora isn't release.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by floatboth on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:36PM (#15373979)

"small subset"?! Most Firefox users don't install addons at all. The number of people who want to install addons from random untrusted places is really tiny.

Developer Edition is not alpha.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by superkuh on Saturday September 30, 2017 @05:02PM (#15374972)

Well, you're wrong. Developer is taking the place of aurora/alpha as the below quote from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio... shows,

>Firefox Developer Edition replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox Release Process. Like Aurora, features will land in the Developer Edition every six weeks, after they have stabilized in Nightly builds.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by floatboth on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:32PM (#15375938)

Sure I guess you could call Aurora "alpha" (but it wasn't named "Alpha" for a reason)…

the point is, they're so confident in the stability of the "alpha" they're offering it as something to be used by, well, all developers. And they should be confident. In the last year or so, Nightly only broke for me once.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by 482794793792894 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:14AM (#15372708)

Don't know what you mean with packaging support, but you can install language packs into the Unbranded Builds to get the different languages.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by superkuh on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:40PM (#15373997)

No repository, anywhere, has unbranded Firefox packaged up and with updates. If you want to run it that means manually downloading it and changing system config by hand each time there's a patch or version increment.

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