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Information on figuring out what new features and changes will be in upcoming versions of Firefox.

Firefox (Desktop and Android) gets updated every six weeks! How do we stay on top of that? The [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/groups/kb-researchers KB Researchers] do it with crazy, [http://youtu.be/Vxq9yj2pVWk CSI] techniques. =Research= [[Video:http://youtu.be/4UJYRm4zYTk]] Links: *[https://twitter.com/firefoxnightly Firefox Nightly Twitter account] *[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/DeliveryMeetings Firefox coordination meeting] - Wednesdays at 11am PDT - Often there are cryptic notes about things without links to bugzilla or other references. That's ok. We can search with Google, search in Bugzilla and ask people on irc. *[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking Release Tracking] *[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/latest-features-list Latest features etherpad] *[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap Firefox for Android roadmap] *[http://people.mozilla.org/~mverdi/calendar/ Firefox Doc Calendar on the web], [https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/sumo%40michaelverdi.com/private-21abf0328378e2f6eea13a9ab1e72b6e/basic.ics ICAL] *Bugzilla query: <code>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&value0-0-0=ui-review&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&product=Core&product=Firefox&product=Firefox%20for%20Android&product=Toolkit&chfieldfrom=2013-01-08&resolution=FIXED&chfieldvalue=FIXED&chfieldto=Now&chfield=resolution&type0-0-0=substring&query_format=advanced&list_id=6140344</code> **This was written for Firefox 21. There is a portion of the query with a "from" date. In this example it's 2013-01-08. To make this work for another version of Firefox you'll need to change that date to the day the version of Firefox you want to track was released on the Nightly channel. To figure that out, check the [http://people.mozilla.org/~mverdi/calendar/ Firefox Doc Calendar]. *[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora Download Firefox Aurora]. *[http://nightly.mozilla.org Download Nightly] =What to document= [[Video:http://youtu.be/FhvBNJvMWaI]] Once you've decided what needs to be documented, you'll have to come up with a list of articles and templates that need to be changed (the "what links here" feature is helpful). *Please add a note to the "needs changes" section of these articles and templates along with your username so people will know who to ask if they have a question. *Please also add the article to the current etherpad for the release. [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sumo-fx22 Here's the one for Firefox 22.]