Firefox Community Beta Program

During the run up to Firefox 2, Mozilla company has released beta builds and candidates for wide testing and feedback as part of a community beta program. Those users having downloaded and installed these pre-release versions of Firefox came into part of this beta community program. Their computers can be automatically updated to the Firefox 2 final release.

In order to make sure about the continued improvement in the quality of Firefox 2, Mozilla developers are applying the same program to their security and stability release process for Firefox 2. Starting within the next 24 hours, everyone participating in the beta process will be provided with a pre-release version of the next security and stability update. The final release of Firefox 2.0.0.3 will in charge later soon after Firefox has been completely tested. If you want to be excluded from the beta program, all you need to do is just downloading and installing the latest stable release of Firefox.

In the near future, Firefox will admit additional people into this community beta program. Now, you can identify if you are part of the beta program by following these instructions:

1. Launch Firefox.
2. In the location bar where you usually enter a web address, type: about:config
3. In the Filter field, enter: app.update.channel, and then press the enter key.
4. If you see the value app.update.channel set to “beta” you are enrolled in the beta program.