As we all know, there is 'alpha', and 'beta' release status.
Mozilla Firefox, however, labels its releases differently: 'nightly', 'aurora', 'beta'.
Is this an example to follow? Is aurora the new alpha? Does it create confusion, since it is basically public beta testing with a cool name and cool icon?
It seems Aurora is the code name for a new style browser: http://thefutureofthings.com/news/1277/aurora-mozilla-s-future-concept-browser.html
It is not "instead" of a beta for Firefox, it is a different browser.
It looks like they sync code between the products at 6 week intervals, which makes sense if they are trying to get the most reuse out of Firefox and perhaps feed features back from Aurora.
