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Re:Thank You MDN by efreak on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:27PM (#24139090)
Isn't it just a build flavor with a few different defaults and produced from a different commit?
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Re:Thank You MDN by cpeterso on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:51PM (#24139179)
Firefox Developer Edition is built from the branch as Firefox Beta with some different settings. AFAIK it just has a different theme and extra debug assertions enabled.
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Re:Thank You MDN by pitay on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:57AM (#24143951)
It also lets you run extensions that are not from the Mozilla Addons site, there is no option for that in the standard edition.
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Re:Thank You MDN by efreak on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:36PM (#24171158)
That would be one of the different settings. For running unlisted extensions, iirc it's actually pretty trivial to get one signed; back when they abandoned Shumway it didn't take me more than a few minutes with the command line to get a signed xpi that I then installed on several computers. I might be remembering wrong, though.
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