For anyone running the 0.6pre nightlies or building from trunk and grabbing the first run bundle, you may have noticed we’ve started serving you fresh baked Nightly Tester Tools Add-on with ‘em (originally written by Mossop over at Mozilla with a few lines contributed by us to port it over to Songbird).
We thought it made a lot of sense for a few reasons:
- Our frequent release schedule means our nightly users are often unable to run the most recent released builds’ add-ons even though they are quite likely to be compatible. NTT gives you the ability to override compatibility (either individually, or for all add-ons)
- NTT gives a bunch of handy shortcuts for people filing bugs (you *are* filing bugs, right?) such as getting the build ID and list of all installed extensions.
- Putting the build ID into the titlebar so you can see just how out of date you are (“OMG, that build was like, soooooooo three days ago”)
p.s.P.S. Glenn, Conor: Happy? I totally capitalised everything correctly. 
P.P.S. Happy now Georges? 
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Cool stevel, I already have it
Noticed that. I think its a good choice, since there are always addons, not fit for nightly’s (oftentimes just the version description in the installer…).
But now, as I think of it, couldn’t such a thing just be an option in nightly’s anyway? To disable the version checking?
There is an about:config preference you can set (which is basically what NTT toggles for you).
That makes the tools almost obsolete then…
I laughed out loud at that, thank you. The readability of this post is excellent. =) I never would’ve known it was the same author!
Seriously though, these are smart changes. Really happy to see these going in.
There is an about:config preference you can set (which is basically what NTT toggles for you).