Firefox Developer Edition

I use it daily.

I use it daily.

I think MacUpdates is very late off the blocks for this one. V. 62.0 came out about two weeks ago, now its up to 62.0.B13 The browser in its current edition has a few faults in rendering pages, but its not bad. There seems to be no way to offer feedback.

My all time favorite browser for developing home pages.

"Provide feedback on features and performance to help determine what makes the final release" Oooh, you mean like putting the tabs on top despite complaints from scores of users and refusing to provide a setting to change it because those users are just wrong? Obviously users' opinions are of no concern to the development team.

I don't recommend this. Firefox is supposed to be free and open, and independent. The latest version from Mozilla, for Mac, is 42.0. But Version 44.0a2 (which I downloaded from Macupdate) is something quite different. My Sophos antivirus detected a PUA (potentially unwanted application) associated with it, and this could very well be that automatic Yahoo link, making Yahoo the default browser.. This is sneaky and unpleasant. Avoid Version 44.0a2. 42.0 which I downloaded direct from the Mozilla website, is fine.

FF 42b1 is a dog with plugins - repeat visits asking to allow plugins even though have allowed in past. More than 5 tabs open? Very slow? Repeat visit? Repeated request to allow plugins. Noticeably slower than FF41. Have reverted to FF41 and will test future beta releases.

This would be a 4.5 star review if Mozilla would get their act together and integrate native Cocoa text fields into the app. Many of us have been asking them to integrate this for spelling and other transformation, etc. purposes for over a decade with no effort. This is the only reason Firefox is not my default browser. Their dark theme on this dev release is killer. So much is going in the right direction on the Mozilla foundation projects, but they have to get this going in order to make Firefox, Thunderbird and the like worth even an ounce of attention from so many users and developers that I know.

Since I wrote a comment in 2013 wishing that Mozilla would add the ability to easily use another profile for beta and nightly releases, I had to salute them for doing so. Even though I found a way back then to choose what profile to use each time I'm launching any version of their browser, it's great they made it automatic on this one. Web developer tools are better to use than before and the black theme looks a bit outdated but is nice, though.