One of the easiest and best ways that someone can help Mozilla and Firefox is to run Firefox Nightly. I’ve been doing it on my Windows, Mac and Linux machines for the past couple of months. It requires daily restarts, but otherwise it has been a smooth experience for me.

Unfortunately the number of Nightly users has been steadily dropping for some time, which hurts our ability to catch crashes and other regressions early. Pascal Chevrel and Marcia Knous are leading efforts underway to reverse this trend.

One problem with Nightly builds has been their visibility. In particular, finding localized (non-English) builds was difficult. That situation has just improved: thanks to Kohei Yoshino there is now a single page containing Nightly builds for all platforms and locales. As far as I know there are no other pages that currently link to that page, but perhaps that will happen as part of the planned work to give Nightly builds a place on mozilla.org.

If you have friends and family who would like to help Mozilla and are willing to use pre-release versions of Firefox, please suggest Firefox Nightly to them.