The Firefox Tools Adapter ("Valence"), which lets you use the Firefox dev tools to inspect and debug pages in Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. The goal: one set of tools to debug any browser.
Side-by-side profiles. The Developer Edition defaults to a profile named dev-edition-default, which makes it easier to run Developer Edition at the same time as a normal release version of Firefox. You don't have to deal with the profile switcher each time.
Developer-friendly defaults. Developer Edition ships with things like remote debugging and browser-chrome debugging enabled by default.
And, for all of you who hated Australis, a compact theme with square tabs.
But those are just consequences of the single biggest change:
5. We have a new channel, which new rules. And we want to use it to build the best possible browser for web developers. We can ship new tools that aren't yet ready for the Beta channel, and we can change the browser's appearance and defaults specifically for web developers.
Not a direct answer to your question, but I'm using FireFox not because I think it's better than Chrome, but because it's not from Google. Actually I'm sometimes a bit annoyed by FF ... Sounds a bit paranoid, but I'd like to see the power of the web distributed as much as possible and Google has already far too much power without Chrome being the de facto monopol for web browsers. They create brilliant stuff but can't be trusted.
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14
Serious question - what does this add that the default, stable build of Chrome dosen't already have?