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Matt Wobensmith
Hello Firefox testers, Just a reminder that the testday for Mixed Content in Firefox 23+ will be this coming Monday, July 1st. We’ve posted about this before and we’d love to have you join us. This is an important feature … Continue reading
Al Billings
A few weeks ago, it was announced that there was now a 3D printing vending machine over at UC, Berkeley (aka “Cal”) now. This is the creation of Dreambox, some startup or somesuch doing 3D printing vending machines. Without a lot of data, I sent my trusty minion (I mean “friend”), Zed Lopez, over to take a look at it for me. He took a few photos with his phone and I put them up as a flickr set.
As you can see, the Dreambox basically consists of a Replicator 1 from Makerbot Industries (I mean Stratasys) in a box that dumps prints into the drawers beneath it. Dreambox has put up a video which helpfully shows their process:
While I’m happy to see more exposure to 3D printing for the public, this whole thing seems like a bit of a bad idea. Printers like this that print in plastic are notoriously finicky things, with prints often coming out badly if conditions aren’t right or if the printer is simply not maintained and cleaned well. I don’t know how an unattended Replicator 1 sitting in a box is going to do well with printing materials on a reliably basis. I certainly wouldn’t want to own this Dreambox and have to maintain it on a regular basis.
There is some hope that the machine will be upgraded or better though. I got a note from Dreambox this morning (where I had made an account) mentioning that the whole machine was going offline at the end of this week while they upgraded it. I assume they are going to make some changes to make it more reliably, maybe upgrading the printer to a new model.
If anyone makes any prints on this machine, I’d love to hear more about how the process was for you as a normal user.
adriant
In my previous post fond here: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/06/robocop-automation-progress/ I talked about the progress made on the Robocop automation. In this post I decided to give an overview of the limitations of the framework. Since we started writing tests we ran into … Continue reading
adriant
I would like to first start by thanking Joel Maher and Geoff Brown for all the help they offered me and my team with creating Robocop tests. Who am I and what I work on for Mozilla? My name is … Continue reading
nhirata
One of the quickest ways to test the master/Mozilla Central build is to use the nightlies. You can find the versions listed here : https://pvtbuilds.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/ Sometimes the fix is in a version after the build has been made. In this … Continue reading →
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Aaron Train
This upcoming Friday, we would love for you to solicit your support towards testing and contributing to the process of qualifying a new developer-release version of Firefox for Android and Firefox on Desktop both on the Nightly channel as part of our rapid release testing cycle. We will be focusing on the process of discovering, using and testing WebRTC.
WebRTC is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose. The WebRTC mission is to enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed in the browser via simple Javascript APIs and HTML5. The WebRTC initiative is a project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera.
This QA event, this Friday, is open to all those interested: newcomers, experienced testers, developers, and anyone interested in testing early builds of Firefox on the Nightly channel.
We would like for you to use the new version of Firefox on your Android phone and desktop or laptop machine, and take a close look at the latest Nightly builds in order to assist us in identifying any noticeably major issues found with our WebRTC implementation, and ensure that all feature functionality that is included in this upcoming release is on its way to a feature and testing complete state.
To cover the work throughout the whole day we have created
an EtherPad test-plan. Please feel free to read and use it as a companion during the day’s event. There will be moderators at hand in the IRC channel: #testday, to answer any questions you have.
Together with your help we want to make this event a success and ensure the high quality of WebRTC support in Firefox for all of our users world-wide. If you have time on Friday June 21st, 2013, please join us on IRC, we will have Mozilla community and testers on hand to help answer any of your questions.
Your testing and feedback is highly valuable, and we hope to see you attend our test day event.
nhirata
It took a while to hunt down a site that allowed for free hosting of 50 gigs or more and then post the file up. There are certain modifications I had made from yesterday to the image as well. There … Continue reading →
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nhirata
1. Download Virtual Box and install it: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads 2. Download the 12.04 image: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/Ubuntu%20Linux/12.04/ubuntu_12.04-x86.7z/download 3. “C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe” modifyhd ubuntu_12.04.vdi –resize 524288 Note: 524288 for 512 gigs of space. 4. Launch Virtual Box 5. Create New 6. select : B2G, Type: … Continue reading →
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Cornel Ionce
Greetings Mozilla friends! We held a Firefox 22.0 beta 4 Testday event on Friday, June the 7th. During this event, we ran tests, some bugs were commented, new ones were logged and we managed to test Firefox 22.0 beta 4 with several plugins … Continue reading
marcia
Attention visual designers! Are you interested in contributing to Mozilla QA, being part of an awesome worldwide community and having your work seen by a lot of people? If so, read on because we’re looking for help with a very … Continue reading