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If you can handle some risk**, a fantastic way to help speed development and improve the Thunderbird's quality 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-1.9.2/ nightly build] and submit bugs for problems that you find. And [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 talking to other nightly users is easy]test builds in your daily work.

::'''** Ability to "handle the risk" means you have great backups of your profiles and mail store, and have some tolerance for risk.''' Dataloss is rare, but is always a possibility. Stability is amazingly greatnightly for '''branch''' builds, but not guaranteed. And fixes Fixes to bugs in these builds major problems don't come overnight, especially trunk builds. But many people run unsupported builds. Nightlies Branch nightlies are branded Lanakai, and some early releases trunk nighties are code named Shredder. Shredder is an unbranded state of Thunderbird code base::Some extensions won't work. But many like enigmail and [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html calendar] work if you use the right download for trunk or nightly. Development code eventually ships as a future Many work if you override the version, like 3check and carefully test. Determine individually which ones work using [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6543 Nightly Tester Tools extension]. ::You can also [http://kb.mozillazine.2org/Run_multiple_copies_of_Thunderbird_at_the_same_time run the current "production" version of Thunderbird at the same time].

Some extensions won't work. But many like enigmail and [httphttps://wwwdeveloper.mozilla.org/projectsen/calendarThunderbird/lightning/download.html calendarThunderbird_Binaries Thunderbird Binaries] work if you use has more detail, and links to the right download for trunk or nightly. Many work if you override get the version check and carefully testbuilds. Determine one at a time which work using [https://addonsbugzilla.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6543 Nightly Tester Tools extensionenter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbird Submit bugs]for any problems that you find. You can also And talking to other nightly users is easy [http://kbforums.mozillazine.org/Run_multiple_copies_of_Thunderbird_at_the_same_time run the current "production" version of Thunderbird at the same timeviewforum.php?f=29 in forums]or on IRC.

See what fixes have checked in at [http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/ comm-central] and watch the changes via [http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/atom-log RSS]. [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 "Daily Build Thread" in the Build forum] is also a good great source of informationif you are running trunk builds.