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+title:  "A real world example of how running Nightly builds can help you, a Firefox enthusiast or power user"
+date:   2020-09-08 16:47:04 UTC
+categories: social posts
+tags: Firefox browsers reddit social
+external-url: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/iox4rg/real_world_example_of_how_running_nightly_builds/
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+I have often extolled the virtues of running [Nightly and Beta](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/desktop/) versions of Firefox since it helps you to never be surprised about changes coming to Firefox, and to have a front row seat to providing feedback about new changes as they are still in development.
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+Another instance just happened today, and it is instructive, so here is a story:
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+[u/202nine](https://www.reddit.com/user/202nine/) posted on r/firefox that `browser.link.open_newwindow` set to **1** stopped working as they expected. That was yesterday. 
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+[u/panoptigram](https://www.reddit.com/user/panoptigram/) then posted that it was removed/changed. 
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+I then suggested that u/202nine could file a bug to report a regression, which they did: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663500
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+**Today, the change was reverted.**  Regression and fix, all within a day or so. 
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+If u/202nine hadn't been running Nightlies and filed a bug, that removal may have stayed in place to release, where people would undoubtedly complained about feature removal.
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+*If you are playing with advanced options, you owe it to yourself to run nightly, or at the very least, beta.* Not doing so is saying that you don't really care if the options go away. 
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+[Download Firefox Nightly](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/desktop/#nightly)
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