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Greetings Testers!

The moment has arrived! We are welcoming all testers to help with Firefox 3 RC1 Testday (Part 1). This will be the biggest testday of the year, and we need your help.

What: Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Testday (Part 1)
When: Friday, May 16, 2008 from 7am - 5pm PDT
Where: IRC on irc.mozilla.org, channel #testday

How you can help

1. Install the RC1 build candidate at: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.0rc1-candidates/...
   

Hi Everyone,

Just another friendly reminder to join us Tuesday in #bugday:

*Tuesday, 13. May 2008 :*

* Asia session - 14:00-16:00 (Beijing)

* Euro session - 14:00-16:00 (Berlin)

* Amer. session - 12:00-14:00 (Los Angeles)

See also the timetable on
http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days#Schedule for your Timezone.

On Bugday on Tuesday, 13. May 2008, we will check unconfirmed Firefox Bugs, filed in the last 2 weeks.

Please use this Bug Query http://tinyurl.com/4geuwg and check this bugs if you can confirm them.

Greetings Testers!

It's time to revisit some General Testing in Firefox 3! Join us Friday, May 9, 2008 in #testday on IRC from 7am - 5pm PDT. Here is how you can help us:

1. Install either the latest nightly build from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ (preferable), or install Firefox 3 beta 5.
2. Review the list below of things to test.
3. Provide us with your feedback and any testing updates by leaving a comment on this event post! It's the easiest way to collect information about this Test Day, so don't be afraid to say hello and tell us how your day went.

Hello Thunderbird Enthusiasts.

*Join us Thursday, May 8 to test Thunderbird version 3 alpha 1*
(Available in daytime and evening hours. Extends into Friday for Asia)

We invite the user and volunteer community to participate in the first test day of Thunderbird version 3 alpha 1. The objectives of this test day are:

* A call to arms to users interested in helping us get to Thunderbird version 3
* To develop a set of testers of increasing number and skill for future test work
* To expose more users to new features in Thunderbird 3
* To stress alpha 1 code and identify new bugs

Hi everyone,

Just another friendly reminder to join us Tuesday in #bugday:

*Tuesday, 6. May 2008 :*

* Asia session - 14:00-16:00 (Beijing)

* Euro session - 14:00-16:00 (Berlin)

* Amer. session - 12:00-14:00 (Los Angeles)

See also the timetable on
http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days#Schedule for your Timezone.

On Bugday on Tuesday, 06. May 2008, we will check unconfirmed Firefox Bugs, filed in the last 2 weeks.

Please use this Bug Query http://tinyurl.com/4geuwg and check this bugs if you can confirm them.

For more information about Bugdays, please see

The official time for the test day is Friday, May 2, 2007, from 7am - 5pm PST, but anyone can jump on Litmus at any time on any day!

We'll be testing Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste, Move and Undo/Redo as they apply to items of Bookmarks and History.

For more information, please go to: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Firefox3_preRC1_Community_T...

See you there!

Hey Everyone!

It's time to revisit the Download Manager in Firefox 3! Join us Friday, April 25th, 2008 in #testday on IRC from 7am - 5pm PDT. Here is how you can help us:

1. Install either the latest nightly build from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ (preferable), or install Firefox 3 beta 5.
2. We'd appreciate your running through the testcases in https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_category&product_... if you'd prefer testing on your own, that's fine too!

As part of our QA Community strategy for 2008 I designed a volunteer participation survey in late 2007 as a first step in better understanding our QA contributors. The survey was available online for about two months from Jan 2 - Feb 27, 2008 and we reached out to contributors via newsgroups, mailing lists, and QMO. In the end, we had a pretty good sample of 114 responses.

The goal of the survey was to provide the Mozilla QA team a snapshot of what our community looked like and to gather feedback from volunteers so that we could better plan and execute on our community events and projects going forward.

To read more, check out:
Part 1: http://blog.mozilla.com/jay/2008/03/20/getting-to-know-the-qa-community-...
Part 2: http://blog.mozilla.com/jay/2008/03/28/getting-to-know-the-qa-community-...
Part 3: http://blog.mozilla.com/jay/2008/04/03/getting-to-know-the-qa-community-...

Full survey results are available at:
http://people.mozilla.com/~jpatel/mozqa/qasurveyresults.html

Thanks!
- Jay & the Mozilla QA team

Last night developers checked in a fix that makes it real easy to find your Breakpad crashes - simply type about:crashes in the URL bar and voila - a list of your crashes appear.  There is even a way to clear the list.  Currently this is only available on the trunk (The 2.0.0.x branch uses Talkback as a crash reporting tool).