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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by rdebeasi on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:47AM (#8583741)
Exciting stuff! If you're already on Aurora, when you auto-update to developer edition, you'll switch over to the new dev profile and your bookmarks and settings will be gone. You can get at those by opening the profile manager and switching back to the default profile, or by using a stable version of Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by kibwen on Monday November 10, 2014 @10:40AM (#8584101)
In my case this was unnecessary and the update to Developer Edition preserved everything. Might have something to do with the fact that I already make use of multiple profiles.

EDIT: Wait! The default profile was used when clicking "Restart" from within the updater, but when closing and reopening the browser manually it did indeed start up with a new profile.

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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by vitaminjuk on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @06:09AM (#8589282)
You don't need to manually fiddle with profiles, just untick "Allow Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox to run at the same time" in settings to go back to your old profile rather than the segregated one
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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by wrl on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @05:40AM (#8589223)
Developer edition doesn't seem to respect the setting for default profile. It always opens its `dev-edition-default` profile instead.
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