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Basically: if you want to test Firefox 5, stick to the Aurora channel (for now). It'll all make more sense when all the channels get filled out.

In a few weeks, Fx7 dev will be on nightly, Fx6 stabilizing will be on Aurora, and Fx5 finalizing will be on beta ... we're a step behind that atm (Fx6 nightly, Fx5 aurora, beta unused).

Basically: if you want to test Firefox 5, stick to the Aurora channel (for now). It'll all make more sense when all the channels get filled out.

In a few weeks, Fx7 dev will be on nightly, Fx6 stabilizing will be on Aurora, and Fx5 finalizing will be on beta ... we're a step behind that atm (Fx6 nightly, Fx5 aurora, beta unused).

And there's this:

The merge to Aurora 6.0 will happen on 2011-05-24.

From here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/14df964f915a0494#

It's pretty annoying how Aurora is getting updates each day, without there being anything updated.

This is the reasoning I could find:

Frequency of Aurora Builds

Original plan - we would only build if something had changed.

Changed to when we have changes on any locales if we are including them in the trigger, then we will build every night.

No change to plan but by nature of the many changes going in for locales we will end up building every night.

Source: near the bottom here ... https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Aurora/2011-05-03

Things should speed up after a week or so when Aurora moves onto Fx 6.

This is the reasoning I could find:

Source: near the bottom here ... https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Aurora/2011-05-03

Things should speed up after a week or so when Aurora moves onto Fx 6.

Hm, but why do we have to install an update each day then? :p

Will that concern users staying on the Aurora channel?

aurora will remain aurora forever , u have to switch channel to get into beta or stable etc

Beta 1 should be released today (most probably) , for the time-being , we can see lil activity out here (with localized folder and all) , let's wait! :D

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/5.0b2-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 5.0b2.exe

i presume this is firefox 5.0 beta 1, they have a test build labeled as beta 1 about 3 weeks ago so i presume they may be naming beta 1 as beta 2 or will be overwriting beta 1 later or something.

Just tried it, it has the new features such as .webm playback for urls and "do not track" in options etc, looking good :) it says 5.0 beta channel in the about section, so can't see if it is beta 1 or beta 2.

Changelog is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking#Firefox_5

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