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 = Daily Testing =
-If you can handle the risk**, running [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/ early releases] or [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/ nightly builds] (instead of or in addition to running the current "production" version of Thunderbird) and submitting bugs for them is a great way to help speed the development process and improve the quality of Thunderbird. ** Ability to "handle the risk" means you have great backups of your profiles and mail store, and have a tolerance for some risk. Dataloss is rare - but it can occur. Stability is amazingly great, but far from guaranteed. And of course, fixes to bugs in these releases don't come overnight.  But many people run these unsupported builds, for a variety of reasons.
+If you can handle the risk**, running [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/ early releases] or [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/ nightly builds] (instead of or in addition to running the current "production" version of Thunderbird) and submitting bugs for them is a great way to help speed the development process and improve the quality of Thunderbird.
+'''** Ability to "handle the risk" means you have great backups of your profiles and mail store, and have a tolerance for some risk. Dataloss is rare - but it can occur. Stability is amazingly great, but far from guaranteed. And of course, fixes to bugs in these releases don't come overnight.  But many people run these unsupported builds, for a variety of reasons.'''
 Nighties and some early releases are code named Shredder. Shredder is an unbranded, development level state of Thunderbird code base. This development level will eventually ship as Thunderbird version 3.