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Mozilla's Test Pilot program opens to public

Mozilla Labs has finally finished up work on their Test Pilot program and is now looking for help from Firefox users of all levels. For those of you that don't know, the program is designed to help Mozilla test ideas to continue developing Firefox.

The program was originally announced in January and little was known about it at the time. Mozilla Labs is now ready to get started and today revealed that interested users can now "opt-in" by downloading a special Firefox add-on.

Once you're a member, you will be able to choose what you want to test, whether that means what interests you or what you think needs the most work. It's your call. You're also given the freedom to choose whether you want to submit your results or just test the features for yourself.

The cool thing about the program is it gives average users access Firefox's newest features and user interfaces prior to release. If you want to get a behind the scenes look and help test new features for Firefox, head on over to Mozilla Labs and sign up!

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers

Mozilla Test Pilot program will solicit anonymous user data

Mozilla Test PilotMozilla Labs is introducing a new project today called Test Pilot. It's not up and running just yet, but the goal is to provide Mozilla developers with information they can use to test ideas and further build Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla-based software.

Initially Test Pilot will be available as a Firefox add-on which will collect anonymous user data. One nifty thing about Test Pilot is that it won't actually be gathering data all the time, just when a Mozilla researcher has a specific question that needs answering, like how many browser tabs the typical user has open at any given time.

Test Pilot will be an opt-in program. Mozilla doesn't plan to force the program on anyone, but the group does hope to get somewhere around 1% of all firefox users to sign up for Test Pilot.

Until the project launches, you can find out more and discuss Test Pilot in the Mozilla Labs forums.

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