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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by mikemaccana on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:22AM (#2750355)
6 is in beta now. Nightlies were 7.0a a few days ago, but if you update.... yep, 8.0a1

PS. Nightly has been incredibly stable on my Mac. I actually use it in production, for no other reason than I was testing it and have no reason to get an old release since it's never crashed and is incredibly fast.

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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by mrseb on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:28AM (#2750377)
Can echo that Nightly (8) is very stable on Windows, too.
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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by p3rs3us on Monday July 11, 2011 @11:00AM (#2750945)
Same goes for Linux. This build is quite stable and starts in a snap.
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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by w1ntermute on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:40AM (#2750418)
> Nightly has been incredibly stable on my Mac.

As stable as Chrome dev channel? I use Chrome dev channel (on Linux), but I'm still a bit hesitant about using the Firefox nightlies.

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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by andrewl-hn on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:10AM (#2750498)
Actually most browsers' alphas are very stable these days. At home I run Opera Next, Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly and I haven't had any problems for months.

Sometimes some websites are not shown properly in one of those but all it takes is to switch to another browser.

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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by mikemaccana on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:52AM (#2750450)
Zero crashes, zero manual restarts, zero lag.
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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by w1ntermute on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:36AM (#2750581)
And addon support?
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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 by Osmose on Monday July 11, 2011 @10:25AM (#2750787)
I run Aurora and use the Add-on Compatibility Reporter[1] to disable version checks and run any add-on I want. For most of my add-ons this works fine, but if there is a significant API change an add-on might not work correctly. But if you were scared of that you wouldn't be using Nightly or Aurora.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

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