DeveloperEdition vs Nightly vs Beta

Developer Edition is now on the Beta channel. Nightly is on a separate alpha channel.

the-edmeister said

Developer Edition is now on the Beta channel. Nightly is on a separate alpha channel.

vs Beta?

A brief description of each - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/channels/

In order of development - some new features may come and go from channel to channel.

• Nightly - Under heavy development. Least stable/secure. First tests of new changes/features; some changes/features introduced in Nightly may be removed before Release and other versions. Only for testing. Should only be used by very experienced users/testers.

• Beta - Final development stage before Release. Usually good stability/security. Major bugs resolved. Working out final bugs. Preview of what Release version will most likely contain in the way of changes/features, though some changes/features can still disappear before release.

• Release - Final channel released to public for everyday use.

smorele said

A brief description of each - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/channels/ In order of development - some new features may come and go from channel to channel.

• Nightly - Under heavy development. Least stable/secure. First tests of new changes/features; some changes/features introduced in Nightly may be removed before Release and other versions. Only for testing. Should only be used by very experienced users/testers.

• Beta - Final development stage before Release. Usually good stability/security. Major bugs resolved. Working out final bugs. Preview of what Release version will most likely contain in the way of changes/features, though some changes/features can still disappear before release.

• Release - Final channel released to public for everyday use.

DeveloperEdition

RexaFire said

RexaFire said

Hi

For the benefit of those that are trying to help answer your question, please can you clearly state the issue that you are having with Firefox.

Note that current is 57.0b8 for DE and Beta, so you are behind on updates (beta 57.0b updates twice a week and Nightly 58.0.a1 once or twice each day).

Nightly can be unstable, so you should have another browser (stable release) installed as fallback in case of serious issues with a development versions. If you aren't experienced in dealing with issues the best is to stay away from Nightly and use the release or the Beta/DE versions.

If you use multiple versions then create a separate profile for each version.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_windows
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

Release - Final Beta - Beta what is Night vs Developer Edition

• Nightly is an alpha build of Firefox that changes every day and gets daily updates.

• Developer Edition is BETA build (same as Firefox Beta) with some additional Developer Tools in the default layout (the wrench icon in your toolbar). It gets weekly updates -- twice a week, like Firefox Beta. Sometimes it will get b1 and b2 builds, but Firefox Beta will not.

Release < Beta (b#) < Nightly (a1)

The Developers Edition (Aurora) used to be in between Beta and Nightly channels but now it is pretty much same version as Beta but with the addition developer features as before.