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Is Aurora fully released or is it being worked on, and will it replace Firefox?

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MarcusEskess
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Is Aurora out of the picture now, or will it replace firefox? I'm using it right now and I love the name and feel of it since it feels like firefox.

Is Aurora out of the picture now, or will it replace firefox? I'm using it right now and I love the name and feel of it since it feels like firefox.

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James
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Aurora is the name of one of the channels and is not tied to any one version.

Currently the versions on each channel is 

Release = 8.0.1
Beta = 9.0.b5
Aurora = 10.0a2
Nightly = 11.a1

When Firefox 9.0 is on Release channel the 10.a2 will move/merge to Beta channel as 10.0b1 and the 11.0a1 will start move/merge process to the Aurora channel as 11.0a1 within a few days. Then the version 12.0a1 will start on the Nightly channel. This process will start as early as December 20.

Aurora gets update patches every 1 to 3 or so days whenever there are checkins while the Nightly gets checkins everyday and sometimes has a respin.

The Aurora and more so the Nightly channels are meant more for testers and devs and not regular Firefox users.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

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cor-el
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Beta is already 9.0b5: