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Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#5

Just a rebranding of Aurora, focused on developers? I was expecting something more from all the fanfare.

I think the idea is Nightly/Aurora/Beta builds aren't just for Firefox Developers but Web Developers too and it would be beneficial if more web developers used this branch for development.

Of course, don't forget to test in stable.

Another thing I can think of is rather than prefixing CSS/JS, experimental features could always be enabled in the developer builds and it then kicks into life on stable when it's ready for the general public. Right now you need to change various flags for that to happen.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#7

Just a rebranding of Aurora, focused on developers? I was expecting something more from all the fanfare.

It has some addons installed by default (ADB Helper, Firefox Developer Tools Adapter and Web IDE is turned on by default). I like the Firefox Developer tools but it feels like this one isn't that different from a nightly build with some plugins.

Re: Firefox Developer Edition

#8
They bundled theme otherwise all old stuff. I was at least expecting remote API, more UI fixes with dev tools.

/me Loves Chrome Dev tools, anything less is a waste of time...

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