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> Nightly has been incredibly stable on my Mac.

As stable as Chrome dev channel? I use Chrome dev channel (on Linux), but I'm still a bit hesitant about using the Firefox nightlies.

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Actually most browsers' alphas are very stable these days. At home I run Opera Next, Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly and I haven't had any problems for months.

Sometimes some websites are not shown properly in one of those but all it takes is to switch to another browser.

Zero crashes, zero manual restarts, zero lag.

And addon support?

I run Aurora and use the Add-on Compatibility Reporter[1] to disable version checks and run any add-on I want. For most of my add-ons this works fine, but if there is a significant API change an add-on might not work correctly. But if you were scared of that you wouldn't be using Nightly or Aurora.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

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