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'''4.''' There is somewhat of an inconsistency by using the same app name for Beta and Release but not Aurora. Why would we do that? If we are going to use Firefox for Beta and Release, why not do it for Aurora and then we can largely get rid of the problem in point #1.  
'''4.''' There is somewhat of an inconsistency by using the same app name for Beta and Release but not Aurora. Why would we do that? If we are going to use Firefox for Beta and Release, why not do it for Aurora and then we can largely get rid of the problem in point #1.  
* One of the motivators for keeping it this way was to enable side-by-side installs for web developers.  
* One of the issues that keep coming up easing the ability of side-by-side installs for web developers.  
* I did some digging into this and had trouble finding out the usage scenarios associated with these people. Imagine 5.0 has been released. It seems that web developers will probably be running a previous build (4.0.1), a current build (5.0) and maybe a Beta build (6.0b). In this case, all of these would have the app name Firefox.app and they would have to put them in different directories in order to run them side-by-side using different profiles anyhow. We have made a change since FF4 and both the Beta and Release have the same app name. If they are in the same directory, they will replace each other when you install.
* After speaking with Alex Limi, it's my understanding that this is a profile problem and not really related to app naming. It sounds to me like if we were to have separate app names for Aurora, Beta, Release or just call them all Firefox which results in the "install on top of scenario", this makes know difference to web developers. They still end up with the same difficulties in running side-by-side installs that they do today. They really want to get their data and have it available for all the app versions they are running.
* In this case, it might be worth changing Aurora to Firefox.app as well but then we lose that "branding" aspect associated with the name.


'''5.''' Per the requests from Marketing and Product (see first table), they want the apps for the channels on Windows and Mac called..
'''5.''' Per the requests from Marketing and Product (see first table), they want the apps for the channels on Windows and Mac called..
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