[ArclightMat]

> The developer version is literally the alpha release, later renamed aurora, later named developer. It is not acceptable to use an alpha release as a main driver for security and stability reasons.

It hasn't been for a long time, Mozilla dropped the Aurora channel in 2017 and rebased Developer Edition off Beta [0]. And as far as I'm concerned, beta is as stable as mainline (on my phone, at least).

> The ESR releases of FF main don't allow unsigned add-ons. You may be using a custom user freedom respecting build Debian specifically negotiated with Mozilla to allow in it's repositories?

Official documentation says you can still load unsigned extensions on ESR, but you need to enable a flag in about:config first [1].

[0] https://venturebeat.com/business/mozilla-kills-firefox-auror...

[1] https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-...

[superkuh]

I imagine if you use it on $latest OS and the like it's stable. But I can assure you if you're distro is a little older then the lib mismatches make developer edition a crashy experience.

I'm glad to hear about [1]. I'll have to try this in ESR myself. Hopefully all my extensions have the extra requirement of an add-on ID set. But I suppose I can edit that in myself for each if not.