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I noticed there's a checkbox for "make FirefoxDeveloperEdition my default browser," is that just a vestigial thing from the regular FF installer, or is it actually safe for me to use FFDE as my regular browser?
There are four major new features here:
1. The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which lets you use the Firefox dev tools to inspect and debug pages in Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. The goal: one set of tools to debug any browser.
2. Side-by-side profiles. The Developer Edition defaults to a profile named `dev-edition-default`, which makes it easier to run Developer Edition at the same time as a normal release version of Firefox. You don't have to deal with the profile switcher each time.
3. Developer-friendly defaults. Developer Edition ships with things like remote debugging and browser-chrome debugging enabled by default.
4. And, for all of you who hated Australis, a compact theme with square tabs.
But those are just consequences of the single biggest change:
5. We have a new channel, which new rules. And we want to use it to build the best possible browser for web developers. We can ship new tools that aren't yet ready for the Beta channel, and we can change the browser's appearance and defaults specifically for web developers.
We'll be watching this thread during launch, but you can always submit feature requests on UserVoice. The right people will see them: https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-devel...
This isn't a finished product. It's an invitation.
What tools do you need?
Why emphatize on the download button that it is a "free download"? Maybe they'll add a payed option in the future?
WebIDE still feels like a toy for now. Very little customization for the text editor for now. Also the browser has a shiny new dark theme but the text editor doesn't seem to support themes (and has a light theme as default).
Here's the prettier link to download: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
I believe this is the stub (~400Ko) Sniffing my laptop gave me this http://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/nightl... Felt weirdly generic since the name didn't indicate any special edition, but I ran it and it says developer edition. ---- tl;dr In case someone needs an offline installer, grab that url.
Edit: Use the custom installation option to prevent it from becoming your default browser.
Why emphatize on the download button that it is a "free download"? Maybe they'll add a payed option in the future?
Edit: I'm serious, here's an example https://vwo.com/blog/ab-test-case-study-how-two-magical-word...
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I believe this is the stub (~400Ko) Sniffing my laptop gave me this http://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/nightl... Felt weirdly generic since the name didn't indicate any special edition, but I ran it and it says developer edition. ---- tl;dr In case someone needs an offline installer, grab that url.
The subt stopped downloading in my crappy connection and gave me this link to the installer: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late... Edit: Use the custom installation option to prevent it from becoming your default browser.
Just a rebranding of Aurora, focused on developers? I was expecting something more from all the fanfare.
There are new features (tools adapter, side-by-side profiles, compact theme, developer-friendly default preferences). But what's larger than any of that is the change in Mozilla's policy / conception of the pre-Beta channel. This is very much a v0 offering, of course, but it's an indication that we genuinely want to take developer feedback seriously and co-design this with you. We've given ourselves the freedom to sh…
Having more tools in a developer edition compared to the regular version of the browser seems fine, but at least for me I would like run it with the same rendering engine my users are likely to run.