As an extension-developer, I'm wondering about the Aurora strategy. They move forward with nightly and beta, but I did not found anything about what Aurora would do to the user profile, or what would happen to extensions in Aurora.

I guess what I'm trying to say... if they want more people join those channels, fix extensions, or at least push some emails through the mailing list with infos about that.

There is an extension to install extension independent of their version-range, but maybe that extension should be build into Aurora.

A fast release cycle is nice, but unless mozilla takes care of the extensions, it'll fail.

I've been using the Chrome dev channel as my primary home browser for the last few months (maybe even a year or so by now). It's quite stable; I've only encountered one or two significant problems in that entire time, and they've been resolved pretty quickly. It's pretty nice, I keep noticing small little new features and almost every time someone posts a link to some cutting edge demo, my browser already supports it.

Me too - if you are running Ubuntu, it's really easy to stay up to day with nightlies or dev releases via the respective ppa:s.

Wait, what's 'Aurora'? I'm using Nightly, which is the new name for Minefield. It's sporting a spiffy new logo which looks a lot like the Aurora logo.

It is the channel (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel) in between Nightly and Beta. Changes get pushed from Nightly->Aurora->Beta->Firefox.

I think I've seen it described as something of a "blessed nightly".