Firefox Developer Edition (#Fx10)

[Ver Greeneyes]

No Windows x64 build?

seriously?

I'm pretty sure they only upped the support tier of Win64 builds this cycle (36), and IIUC the developer version is based on 35. I would imagine it will start getting Win64 builds whenever it rolls over to 36.

[the-edmeister]

This new Developer Edition was supposed to create a new Profile upon launch - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/re ... er-edition - but as an upgrade it didn't for me. It might be because the Profile associated with Aurora isn't the default Profile or because the Profile isn't in the default location or even listed in the profiles.ini file - launched strictly the desktop shortcut Target line.

I'm curious what other users experience with updating from Aurora will be.

Edit - Whoops, it did create a new Profile in the default location and showing in profiles.ini with dev-edition-default for the suffix. Discovered that new Profile when I opened the external Profile Manager application for the first time in many months.


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[juanj78]

Nice to see, black theme is back... hopefully it stays...

[greenknight]

I updated from Aurora, my profiles are in the default location, and it continued to use the same Aurora profile. Using the Littlefox theme with no problems.

[couldabeen]

All I get is a popup telling me "the profile couldn't be loaded, and may be missing or inaccessible". If I run it without a profile call, it gives the same error. So I'm stuck here with the DevEd version doing basically the same thing it has done for three days now>> Nothing!

Tried updating, installing fresh, NADA, same old same old. No profile found or missing. so, I'll live without it. I don't do development anyway, so it's one more version I won't have to be concerned with. Back to Beta and Nightly.

[DJ-Leith]

I'm curious what other users experience with updating from Aurora will be.

I run Aurora (now "Firefox Developer Edition") as my main browser.

OS Windows 7 64bit.

I have many profiles (not all are in the "profile.ini").

See the-edmeister's locked post for an excellent source of more information.

Using Release, ESR, Beta, Aurora, and/or Nightly together.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2821799


Some Profiles have different Add-ons.
In my case: ALL are started using 'specific to the profile' shortcuts.

An anonymised example (I've changed the Windows User Name) of one of the 'shortcut Target: field' is

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Aurora\firefox.exe" -profile 
"C:\Users\UserNamehere\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\v0kx56co.20-TestNR" -no-remote

Using my 'most often used Aurora shortcut' I have had no Updates
for a few days (expected in view of the launch).

Today Using "Help", "About Aurora" (if I recall correctly - now it is "About Firefox Developer Edition")
led to an Update. The download time (about 6 hours ago) was longer than usual.


Result is sub-folders for the 'New Profile' were created.
This Profile is empty: just the sub-folders for the
"y941iyq9.dev-edition-default" were created.

By "sub-folders" I mean just 2 new sub-folders for "Roaming" and "Local".

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C:\Users\XXXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

where all Profile sub-folders are (for "prefs.js" \cache2 etc).

In my specific usage, my LOCAL

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C:\Users\XXXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

only has data added here if I do NOT use the 'shortcuts to specific Profiles'.

The "profile.ini" has had an additional entry made by the Update:

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[Profile12]
Name=dev-edition-default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/y941iyq9.dev-edition-default

All my shortcuts still work.
All point to their own Profile (and each Profile has kept their settings, History etc).
None, at the moment, use the new "y941iyq9.dev-edition-default" folders.

Starting Firefox using this shortcut (to allow one to select a profile)

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P

still points to the last used Profile as selected by the 'Profile selector'
(which uses the "profile.ini" file).

As I am using the "-no-remote" switch, on all my shortcuts, I can continue
to run several browser instances at the same time.

I have yet to do:

A. Create a specific shortcut to use the "dev-edition-default" Profile.
B. Use the 'built into Firefox / Dev Ed Profile Manager' to select and then use the "dev-edition-default" Profile.

DJ-Leith