Nightly Tester Tools

Nightly Tester Tools is an addon for aiding testers of nightly builds of Mozilla apps like Firefox and Thunderbird. Some features are:

• Extension compatibility fixing
• Titlebar customization
• Build ID retrieval
• Copy extension list to clipboard
• Screenshots
• Open Profile Folder

Install

You can install the latest stable NTT from addons.mozilla.org. To install for development, clone the repo:

git clone git://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt.git

then add a file titled '{8620c15f-30dc-4dba-a131-7c5d20cf4a29}' to the "extensions" directory in your profile folder with the text:

~/nightlytt/

or whatever the path to your nightlytt folder is.

To package the extension into an xpi for distribution simply ant and the default dev script/target will be invoked:

ant

You can override the build number used in the filename:

ant -Dbuild.number=1

To build for release (no build number in filename):

ant release

Development

All bugs are reported to the Nightly Tester Tools component at bugzilla.mozilla.org. bug list, file a bug. Check out the wiki for a list of current and proposed features and feel free to file bugs and submit patches.

Related Add-ons:

• Screengrab
• Add-on Compatibility Reporter