Features/Desktop/Ability to run concurrent channels: Difference between revisions

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The user that wants to suddenly switch his stable version of Firefox to Beta or Aurora doesn't really exist. I think the channel switcher has great value as a '''discovery mechanism''', but that doesn't mean we should replace the Firefox they're currently using with something else from under their feet.

# Having their history, bookmarks and settings available in the Beta, Nightly or whatever version they are testing is a bonus, but not super important to them.

How I'd like us to solve this:

# Make the solution conceptually simple, and make it easy to identify what browser you're actually using.

# Use Sync to transfer data and settings, and don't try to reuse the same profile across different channels

I'm a web developer. I have the latest stable version of Firefox installed. I have two paths to discovering the Aurora/Beta channels:

# By downloading it from the Firefox web site

* I can keep these start menu entries around essentially forever, and always be able to test the latest on each channel, with a minimum of confusion, since the application name always reflects what I'm looking at.

If someone was testing all of our variants, their start menu on windows would then look something like this:

* Firefox