[daw___]

From the announcement:

For developers hosting their add-ons on AMO, this means that they will have to

either test on Developer Edition, Nightly, or one of the unbranded builds.

Does this mean that developers won't be able to test the add-ons on official stable binaries end users will consume their add-ons on? Good luck with that.

[danielweber]

My thinking is "I have to install another thing onto my computer to write a script?! Eh, maybe I'll do something else with my time instead."

[hobarrera]

I find this unbelieveable too. Developers being unable to test the addons in the same browser that end-users use is stupid.

That aside, I honestly can't see the value of the developer edition at all.

[daw___]

Me neither. Maintaining a set of features that will be unused by most users is definitely more convenient than maintaining a whole separate build that will be used by a small subset of users.