Instead, it is exploring a way to provide users with more control. WebExtensions are the future of Firefox add-ons."Īlthough developers may not like the idea, Mozilla points out that other types of extension, "including XUL overlay add-ons, bootstrapped add-ons, and SDK add-ons," will stop working when version 57 of Firefox is released on November 14.įirefox is not following Chrome in using one process per tab, because this consumes a vast amount of resources. WebExtension APIs are compatible with multiprocess Firefox. However, Mozilla says that "the best solution is to rewrite your add-on as a WebExtension. Multi-process functionality first appeared in Firefox 48 on August 2 last year, so developers have already had eight months to fix their add-ons.
FIREFOX NIGHTLY VS DEVELOPER EDITION ARCHIVE
This should increase pressure on the extension suppliers whose add-ons are currently not compatible with multi-process operation and prevent it from working.Īccording to my own copy of Firefox 52, incompatible add-ons include Extended Statusbar, Mozilla Archive Format, and Search by Image (by Google). Most of the serious regressions are found in Nightly so Aurora is just six weeks of additional latency before new features and bug fixes reach the Release channel users."įirefox betas are of interest because version 54, which moves to beta on April 18, is the first to use four content processes by default. Thus, there isn't much additional QA benefit when a Firefox release moves from the Nightly to Aurora channel. Today, Aurora has only about 2x the number of users as Nightly and there isn't much difference between the types of user hardware or bugs found in Aurora compared to Nightly. The original plan was for Beta to have 10x the number of users as Aurora and Aurora to have 10x the number of users as Nightly.
FIREFOX NIGHTLY VS DEVELOPER EDITION CODE
In future, Firefox code will go straight from Nightly to Beta and then to Release, which is what most people would expect.Ĭhris Peterson, technical program manager at Mozilla, commented on Hacker News that "The Aurora channel never got as much traction as Mozilla anticipated. Aurora builds came between the nightly builds and the official beta versions of Firefox. The Aurora Channel will also be discontinued for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey programs.Įliminating Aurora will also affect ordinary users, because code will reach release versions of Firefox six to eight weeks sooner than before.įirefox introduced the Aurora Channel in 2011. However, Mozilla says that "users will maintain their Developer Edition themes, tools, and preferences, will keep their existing profile, and should not experience any disruption". From April 18, developers will be moved to the beta version. Mozilla is discontinuing the Aurora version of its Firefox browser, which formed the basis of its developer version.
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