14 DAY TRIAL // Do you have an immutable affinity for Mozilla's open source browser? Are you generally among the first to jump on everything that moves in Firefox land? Are you looking for a way to access early development milestones of Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.x ahead of anybody else? Then, Mozilla has the right answer to your prayers. Placing a great deal of emphasis on the value of the resource that is the community built around Firefox, Mozilla is currently putting together "a network of trusted testers", ready, able and willing to get their hands dirty on test driving release candidates and developer builds of the forthcoming versions of Firefox.
"If you are a web developer or have a site that you would like to test during our release candidate cycle, we invite you to join this list. We will announce and communicate when builds are ready to test by using this list, so you will have a chance during the release candidate cycle to identify any possible issues *before* we push bits live. We may also periodically send out alerts when we need focused testing in an area", reads a fragment of a message from Mozilla.
And when I said that you will have the chance to be among the first to try out release candidates and developer builds of new iterations of the open source browser, I wasn't exaggerating in the least. In fact, Mozilla has promised that testers will be getting new beta builds of Firefox 3.0 and 2.0.0.x even before they will receive the email notifications. All you have to do is go over at the betatesters info page and sign up.
Mozilla has emphasized the fact that it is looking for testers "interested in testing our release candidates and developer builds with the hopes of finding any possible regressions before the final release is shipped. We would really like folks who do advanced web development using HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript (AJAX), CSS, XML, Plugins (Flash, QuickTime). If you develop widely deployed web applications or web application frameworks (especially those used in intranet environments) we are very interested in making sure that updates to Firefox do not break your code."