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If you can handle the risk**, a fantastic way to help speed the development process and improve the quality of Thunderbird is to continuously run an [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/ early release] or [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest- | If you can handle the risk**, a fantastic way to help speed the development process and improve the quality of Thunderbird is to continuously run an [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/ early release] or [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ nightly build] and submit bugs for problems that you find. Many extensions, perhaps even all of yours, will work if you override the version check. But likely some will not - i.e. results vary. The most controlled way to determine what works is override one at a time, using [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6543 Nightly Tester Tools extension]. Also, it is possible to [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Run_multiple_copies_of_Thunderbird_at_the_same_time run the current "production" version of Thunderbird at the same time]. | ||
'''** 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.''' | '''** 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.''' | ||