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Re:Firefox 64 Released by shmerl on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:41PM (#18658180)
Why would beta build not find shader cache?
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Re:Firefox 64 Released by jjuhl on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:00PM (#18658356)
Beta == unfinished, may have bugs.
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Re:Firefox 64 Released by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:25PM (#18659566)
No, "beta" means "finished, but may have non-show-stopper bugs".

If it's not finished it's alpha.

Beta is pretty much just used as "buyer beware" nowadays, like a disclaimer "we take no responsibility for our bugs".

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Re:Firefox 64 Released by JohnFen on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:16PM (#18659896)
Offtopic for sure, but the way most places I've worked have used the terms is: "alpha" means that the developers think it's done. "beta" means QA thinks it's done. "release" means that actual user testing revealed no showstoppers.
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