Testing Baby Foxes

Testing baby foxes. Dietrich Ayala, Mozilla

Help us help you.
Try out pre-release versions of Firefox.
Blog, tweet, chat about your experiences.
Report bugs.

Constant flux.
Massive codebase.
Unintended consequences.
Testing localized builds.

Hold up. This software can bite.
Backup your data.
Back it up again.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-us/kb/profiles

Branch Nightlies
Stable. Mostly. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox-3.6.x/

Alphas, Betas
https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Trunk Nightlies
Living dangerously.
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Updating
Windows: Help/Check for Updates
Mac: Firefox/Check for Updates
Linux: Help/About Firefox

Foxes and foxes.
Windows: Install to a different directory.
Mac: Rename the .app file.
Linux: Install to a different directory.

Profiles: Gotta manage 'em all!
-profilemanager on the command line
Profile Manager
http://people.mozilla.org/~jgriffin/profilemanager/

Safety Dance
Backup with Dropbox, Time Machine, etc.
Firefox Sync, new in Firefox 4 (Weave add-on)
Copy profiles to back up

Uh-oh.
Windows: Feedback button
Mac, Linux: Help/Submit Feedback
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
Blog it, tweet it (#firefox)

Thanks!
@dietrich on Twitter.
[email_address]
http://flavors.me/da
Pictures are CC license, from Flickr.com.

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by Dietrich Ayala on Nov 03, 2010