[thelist] Deer Park Alpha 2... is it safe?

[Felix Miata]

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> I was thinking about downloading Deer Park, to make it part of my array
> of browsers for testing my pages... but this warning from Mozilla sounds
> scary "Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x should not download or use
> Deer Park Alpha 2." Does it interfere in any way with the installed
> Firefox? Has anybody had any bad experience with Firefox and its
> extensions after installing Deer Park?

It says that to prevent people used to officially released software
products from having justifiable complaints about crashes, lost data, or
other problems from the use of alpha or beta software not intended for
use by people not used to or prepared to deal with those events
personally when they do occur.

You cannot expect all extensions to work properly unless they were
intended for the software version you are using. Since beta software is
a moving target, non-functional and dysfunctional extensions are common
in it. One that for sure does not currently work is Web Developer:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294742
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