QA/Build IDs

Verifying the Build ID

Every Mozilla product has a build ID associated with it. This string represents the date and hour of the day the build was made. When a Mozilla Product is released, we need to verify that the product has the right build ID on each platform and for each locale.

Firefox 4 or later

Launch Firefox. Load "about:" (without the quotes) in the URL bar.

Look at the bottom of the window for the Build Identifier. It should look like:

• Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100924 Firefox/4.0b7pre

The Build ID is the 8-digit number immediately after "Gecko/".

Firefox 3.5 and 3.6

Launch Firefox. Load "about:" (without the quotes) in the URL bar.

Look at the bottom of the window for the Build Identifier. It should look like:

• Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080808020649 Minefield/3.1a2pre

The Build ID is the 14-digit number immediately after "Gecko/".

Firefox 2.0 or 3.0

Same as above for Firefox 3.1, only the Build ID will be a 10-digit number immediately after "Gecko/".

Firefox 1.5 and earlier

Windows

Make sure you install the Talkback component. You need to do a manual custom install via the installer to make sure talkback gets installed.

In a DOS window, go to the installation directory (usually c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox or c:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird).

Now cd into extensions\talkback@mozilla.org\components

In your favorite editor (like notepad) open the file called master.ini. Near the top of the file you should see a BuildID string that looks like the following: BuildID = "2005120115"

That's the build ID string.

Mac OS X

In a shell window, go to the directory containing the application package and cd into it (i.e. cd ~/Desktop/Thunderbird.app).

Now cd into Contents/MacOS/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/components/talkback

In your favorite editor (like vi) open the file called master.ini. Near the top of the file you should see a BuildID string that looks like the following: BuildID = "2005120115"

That's the build ID string.

Linux

Go to the directory you untarred the Mozilla product into.

cd extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/components/talkback

In your favorite editor (like vi) open the file called master.ini. Near the top of the file you should see a BuildID string that looks like the following: BuildID = "2005120113"

That's the build ID string.