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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by superkuh on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:07PM (#25624755)
Developer edition is a beta (or alpha since it derived from aurora line which came from alpha). You can say it doesn't have bugs but it has more than release editions. In my experience many more. Using a beta as a daily driver is not something to recommend.

Now, some distros like Debian have enough political power to get Mozilla to allow them to put Firefox branding on their altered user-freedoms-respecting repo editions of FF release. But most don't. So the only way to use actual release FF is to go outside your repos and use the unbranded version. Possible, of course, but tedious.

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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by mmis1000 on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:11AM (#25628108)
Even the nightly is actually quite stable in my opinion. I already used Firefox Nightly daily for years. And don't encounter major usability problems(startup crash, page not rendering type problems). Although it do sometimes have minor problems.
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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by Aradalf on Sunday January 03, 2021 @11:56PM (#25628041)
You can enable developer mode on release Chrome (or Edge Chromium, which is what I recommend) and use any extension you wish directly by loading the unpacked source directory.
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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by mmis1000 on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:04AM (#25628080)
That results in a big giant warning you have to dismiss every time when you start the chrome. Although that isn't avaiable on release channel branded firefox anyway.
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