<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On May 20, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Jeff Grossman <<a href="mailto:jeff@stikman.com">jeff@stikman.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Bryan Price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bytehead@gmail.com" target="_blank">bytehead@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jeff Grossman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@stikman.com" target="_blank">jeff@stikman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You should never be running the Nightly build of either Firefox or Thunderbird as your daily version because it can break at any time.</blockquote><br clear="all"></div>I will politely disagree. I think by running it as my main browser, I'm generating the data we need to keep improving Firefox. I do have a backup browser in the form of a portable Firefox which is on the release track, and indeed I do use that for a game that I play (the nightly almost plays it, but some of the content isn't either downloaded or displayed...). But it could be an installed Firefox release instead of a portable version as a fallback if/when the nightly totally hoses itself. Which hasn't happened in awhile. There, I've just cursed us.<br>
<br>And with Sync, they are always synced in extensions. The only things that I don't see syncing are Greasemonkey scripts, and I think I might have three installed. Not an issue. If I had a hundred, well then... But then I managed it when Sync didn't handle extensions either. /shrug.<br>
<br>Thunderbird is a bird of a different feather. I don't use Thunderbird (I'm probably placing too much trust in Google to keep my Gmail account around), but I would think that it would be possible to point a release Thunderbird at a nightly profile, and access it. I've had enough hardware meltdowns that have kept me off my own hardware for months where I am basically done with trying to keep my email in one place on my own hardware. Hence why I trust Gmail. Maybe if I were to get a Windows-to-go setup (and duplicates of that drive on a daily basis), I might go back to my own email database.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>OK, maybe my choice of words was a little incorrect, or I did not expand my thought enough. A lot of users do not understand the risks of running the Nightly builds and get all upset when it breaks, or if an add-on does not work. Firefox is not as much of a concern as Thunderbird is because with Thunderbird you have the chance of completely using all of your e-mail if there is a serious bug. I definitely think experienced users of either Firefox or Thunderbird need to be using any of the early channels because without that use the releases will suck. I just see too many people wanting to use it because there are cool new features and then they get upset when something does not work correctly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jeff</div></div></blockquote>+1</body></html>