Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package! (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Our .deb package is now available for Developer Edition and Beta builds, alongside our Nightly package for Debian-based Linux distributions.

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[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 11 months ago

Just tangentially related, but what do you people like of the Developer edition over the other flavors?
I've read up in the past of its extra features and didn't see anything worthwhile, the official landing page would suggest that it's pretty much aligned with stable feature-wise

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

It's mostly intended for webdevs wanting access to new web standards ahead of time and extension developers, who can install unsigned/development versions of their extensions into there.

It's certainly not a must-have for any devs out there...

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 11 months ago

install unsigned/development versions of their extensions into there

That's really handy actually, I'll have to keep it in mind, thanks!

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

See "What are my options if I want to install unsigned extensions in Firefox?" in the FAQ here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ

If you're on Linux, you may have that about:config flag even in your distro-provided Firefox Stable build...

[-] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Developer edition is essentially Firefox beta, with some tweaks that developers may prefer by default, and some experimental dev features.

As I understand it, it aligns with beta, but is an early beta, meaning that while it shares its codebase, it may get access to some feature rollouts (that are gated by edition) slightly earlier than true Firefox Beta.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago

Oh so there is more, thanks for explaining!
The landing page mostly talks about webpage inspecting features that are also in the normal Firefox nowadays, so I was a bit confused.

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