Mozilla released its Firefox 3 release candidate internet browser to public for testing purpose only. Mozilla Firefox is the most popular internet browser after Microsoft’s Internet explorer. By releasing this Firefox 3.0 version to developers and testers community, company wants to make sure product is fully ready for final release.
Company is taking feedback from testers and web developers to improve and fix most of the bugs before advancing to next version.
This is a good opportunity for beginners and experts in web testing. You can test this Firefox browser version 3 on your machine. As many of our readers asked me how to and from where to test the web applications, this would be a great example of testing web product.
Test Firefox 3 preview version from all testing aspects like UI, functionality, installation/ uninstallation, different plugin management in Firefox, browser security, performance, memory and load testing.
Do it manually or use any automation tool. Report your feedback to Firefox team.
Here is how to start guide:
1) Download the Firefox release candidate 3 version. Download from here. You can download Firefox 3.0rc1 from above download page. You can also download other language packs if you are familiar with other languages if any.
2) Read the Firefox 3.0rc1 release notes and known issues here. From this page you will get idea of different testing scenarios and how you can test this application.
3) If you find any bug then report that bug to Firefox team using online Bugzilla. Before reporting any bug please read all known issues and bug filing instructions. You can also use this feedback form to send your feedbacks.
Happy testing!
19 comments ↓
Hi vijay,
It’s very nice 2 read this article. And it’ll be also a good experience to do this.
THNX…….
Hi Vijay,
It is a great opportunity to test beta version of a product, we can literally think as end user and do the testing.
Regards
Vishal Chhaperia
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Mail: bishalchaperia@gmail.com
What is Traceability Matrix..? Please explain this with Example..!! Thanks..!!
hai iam Naveen Talluri
its really a good opertunity for testers like us to do testig on beta vertions.thanks for giving this opertunity for mee too.
Hi Vijay,
Its really good oppartunity for beginers. its really a good opertunity for testers .thanks for giving this opertunity for mee too.
HI,
Its a good opportunity for us freshers like us for testing this beta version if firefox. Pls anyone who has started testing with it can help me in how to proceed testing with it in the initial stage.
Pls help me out!
Ruchi
Hi vijay
its really Good opportunity for all of us to test the most popular product, lets improve our testing skills also
Thanks for your information’s
also guys if you want to download the firefox 3.0 on the first date of its final release then please register your interest with firefox site. This is going to break the world guinness book record of most downloads in one day. Let’s make firefox popular.. This is a good opportunity also for those who hates internet explorer
Hi
This information has been really helpful.
Can someone guide me about selenium - an open source testing tool?
Waiting
Jamila
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Can any one tell me how to start testing firefox 3.0 (where do we get the test files?
Thanking you all,
Lokesh
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Hi Samir,
I have mentioned Traceability Matrix as given below:
Traceability matrix is table which shows the use cases, test cases and srs ids.orIt is defined as mapping between user requirements and test cases.
Thanks,
Suresh
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Hi Friends,
Currently i am working in Non-IT field and planned to switch my career to testing.I had learned the basics of testing,and now i am very eager to learn testing practically with real time projects.
If any one interested to teach testing personally with real time projects , i will be more grateful, or else show me the right place in chennai.
Thanks & regards
selvam.ba@rediffmail.com
Well, Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta is available for Beta Testing since last November (November 19th 2007). Here is a crash I had encountered while Beta Testing Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta See if anyone of you can reproduce this crash!
Happy Testing…
-Debasis
Hi Jamila
Iam a fresher for S/W testing, right now iam searching for testing job, So could u pls send me d S/W tesing intrvw Qstns. Please.
what is smoke testing?
Smoke testing is nothing but the testing we used to do when we recieve any build ( .exe file + release notes ) to QA. We will be doing normal functionality check to ensure that the build which we receive is fit for QA.
Hi Friends,
Currently i am working in IT testing.I had learned the basics white box testing and now i am very eager to learn white box testing practically with real time projects.
Can any one tell me how to start testing firefox 3.0 (where do we get the test files?) to learn white box testing more.
Thanks
Quynh Nhi
Email: nhi1314@yahoo.com
HI .
.thanks 4 it …..
its very good 4 tester to learn how to find bugs from browser
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