Mozilla Kills Firefox Aurora Channel, Builds Will Move Directly From Nightly To Beta (venturebeat.com)

Mozilla said today it is killing the Firefox Aurora channel, six years after it was first introduced in April 2011. The move comes as, Aurora failed to live up to the company's expectations as a "first stabilization channel." Moving forward, the absence of Aurora will help the company streamline its browser's release process and bring stable new features to users and developers faster. From a report: The Firefox Aurora channel sat between the Nightly and Beta channels. Until now, Firefox development started with Nightly, which consists of the latest Firefox code packaged up every night for bleeding-edge testers, and was then followed by Aurora, which includes everything that is labeled as "experimental," then Beta, and then finally the release channel for the broader public. Going forward, builds will move from Nightly to Beta to Release. The Firefox Developer Edition, which the company calls "the first browser created specifically for developers," will be based on the Beta channel instead of Aurora. Developer Edition users should keep their existing profile, themes, tools, preferences, and "should not experience any disruption," Mozilla promises.

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Incredibly shrinking Mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

Mozilla is shrinking, clearly the question becomes where does it place now that Verizon purchased Yahoo and that potentially Firefox cushy deal with Yahoo search will one day go away. I see the writing on the wall and even if you take away the shrinking market share of Firefox. The facts remain that a once viable browser is barely what it once was. Using Firefox in Linux is truly painful anymore, I quickly use it to install Chrome these days. Then I either uninstall Firefox or simply remove the quick launch icon and place it in the doldrums of semi retirement.