Re:Firefox 18
by freditup on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:06AM
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I've been using the beta channel since FF6 (maybe) and, as you said, it's been quite reliable. It's fun because you feel like you're somehow an insider and privileged because you get features (that no one but you would care about!) earlier than everyone else. Yes, these are quite silly feelings, but what the heck.
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Sounds like you might enjoy the Nightly channel, in my experience it's been pretty stable.
Aurora is a good compromise. I was on nightly for a few months, and I had one or two times where something would break. Usually it was just a GUI element getting misaligned from some change. The worst was when it broke web video for a day.
I wish there was a reliable Aurora channel on Arch. The pkgbuild system isn't well suited to keeping up to date with a moving filename target like Firefox.
I've used Aurora for some time, extensions often get borked or don't work, so I went back to Beta.
btw one tip for people who switch to beta/aurora - disable extensions compatibility check.
There's an Arch developer named heftig who maintains a custom repository with Aurora. I've been using it successfully the last few months. I think aurora is updated daily, but I haven't watched it closely.
Info: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157 Repo 32-bit: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/i686 Repo 64-bit: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/x86_64
Another option is to download the latest build [1] and use the built-in updater.
[1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-bu...
I've switched to Aurora for the past month and it's noticeably faster than FF18b on my older hardware.