![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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