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Re:Firefox 18 by zanny on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:07AM (#5025224)
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.

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Re:Firefox 18 by zalew on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @04:34AM (#5025474)
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.

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Re:Firefox 18 by km3k on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:04AM (#5026191)
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

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Re:Firefox 18 by rammark on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:18AM (#5026531)
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...

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Re:Firefox 18 by ck2 on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:48AM (#5025279)
I've switched to Aurora for the past month and it's noticeably faster than FF18b on my older hardware.
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Re:Firefox 18 by zobzu on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:15AM (#5025241)
I agree, nightly does break badly from time to time. Beta or aurora are better bets.
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