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 3.1 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; 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.