Nightlies

What are nightlies?

Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird all have releases and release candidates: These are the versions, such as Mozilla Suite 1.0 or Firefox 1.0, announced on Mozilla and other websites and the ones you hear about. However, the code for these upstanding programs change daily, and developers check in new code everyday. To help developers find new bugs and fixes, the code is recompiled each night and these nightlies are uploaded to Mozilla's servers. As noted, these nightlies are usually filled with bugs, are generally unstable, and should be avoided for anything except testing if possible.

However, if you want to get involved and want to help with development or bug triaging or filing bugs or patch writing or anything fun like that, using nightly are an excellent tool. This is the reason why Mozilla's Bugzilla recommends users to use nightlies before reporting bugs because those bugs could have been already fixed in recent nightlies.

External Links

• Mozilla Suite nightlies
  • Firefox nightlies
  • Thunderbird nightlies
• The Burning Edge: Find out what's new in Firefox nightlies.
  • The Rumbling Edge: Find out what's new in Thunderbird nightlies.
• Mozilla's Bonsai: A raw log of what changes in Mozilla's code.