Can anyone explain exactly what's different about this?
Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?
> Firefox Developer Edition automatically sends feedback to Mozilla ... In addition to the data collection described in this Privacy Notice, these versions by default may send certain types of web activity and crash data to Mozilla and in some cases to our partners.
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Latest_Bu...
I don't personally use the builds as Mozilla has not yet blocked signing of our extensions and `web-ext run` serves me well for development. Automated signing is not brilliantly documented but works well enough [2-3] to ensure that our builds are tested by real users before we release a stable version.
[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/?p=123637
[2]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/f45c990eac074df8...
[3]: https://github.com/tridactyl/buildbot/blob/master/autobuild....
Unless it changed quite recently, you can do this with normal Firefox builds too AFAIK
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Note specifically the step where the addon must be signed before it can be installed in this fashion. "Developer edition" does not require you have Mozilla's permission to install addons.
Kind of like beta: all of the new APIs and features related to web development are there three months before they hit stable.
At least this is how I recall it, please anyone correct me if I am mistaken.
It also has the new logo and I suppose there's new stuff on the dev tools. "What's new" page is broken so not absolutely sure.