Hacker Read top | best | new | newcomments | leaders | about | bookmarklet login

See what happens when you switch to Nightly Firefox.


sort by: page size:

Firefox Nightly reporting in ??????

> Firefox Nightly

Aurora is considered Nightly for this purpose, right?


It'll be a default on Firefox 55. Or you can try the current Nightly.

I also use Firefox Nightly. But was rudely surprised to notice that settings were getting reset after nightly upgrades. This is really poor decision by Firefox. If they expect early adopters to use and give feedback, then they should be friendly to them.

You can use Firefox nightly and enable any that you want.

I'd rather use the version of Firefox that doesn't crash more frequently, but that's the trade-off I gotta make at the moment.


Same. I run Firefox Nightly with everything under "Nightly Data Collection and Use" checked.

It says in the blog post you need to use Firefox Nightly

I wasn't aware that the Firefox nightly had Symbol, I will download Firefox nightly later and update the post, I should have Firefox nightly anyway. Thank you!

Edit, tested and updated blog post. Thanks again.


I use nightly as my main browser because I want Mozilla to see my bugs. And I want Mozilla to not do telemetry in production. No such luck.

I use to use nightly, then I found out they spy on you a lot more if you use nightly. I suspect the same applies to developer edition.

[0] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxNoNightl...

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/ri4kny/you_probably_don_t_want_run_firef...


Thanks for the information. I've been running only Nightly for over a year now and hence my misinformation. That logic does seem sound though but would be better implemented if any change to any preference that's not visible in the Preferences section raised a notification about it. I think I'll add this to Bugzilla.

Firefox does this too. It's on by default for Firefox Nightly and an opt-in preference in the other update channels.

You can access about:config and change your user agent if you use Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly. The latter is annoying since you get constant updates, but the former is about as stable as normal Firefox.

I know but it never worked for me. I followed the procedure twice, two different years, two different installs. I'm always doing something wrong. On Mozilla's side, why are they even doing that to us on Nightly?

Seems to work nicely in Firefox 50 release (no nightly required) once the config is set.

Really happy about the way this is progressing.


I do agree, and I'm more careful now. Always keep a backup, at the very least. I now symlink ~/bin/firefox to nightly because some apps seem to have it hardcoded to open "firefox" rather than what's set as default.

Apparently, WebIDE is part of Firefox proper not just nightly. You'll have to toggle a pref in about:config (devtools.webide.enabled) to make it visible in the developer menu. It's pretty cool.

> WebRender is already turned on by default for many users in Firefox Nightly…

Are you using Nightly?


It does have it in nightly versions but not enabled by default. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
next

Legal | privacy