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How dangerous to my system is Test Pilot participation?

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Odin14
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I'm interested in volunteering for the Test Pilot program, but I'm apprehensive about the Terms of Use provisions that talk about the risks (entirely borne by me) of damage to my software, hardware, and even content. Can you delineate the probable magnitude of those risks? To what extent has such damage occurred in the past, either with the Test Pilot program or with comparable programs? Specifics would be much appreciated.

I'm interested in volunteering for the Test Pilot program, but I'm apprehensive about the Terms of Use provisions that talk about the risks (entirely borne by me) of damage to my software, hardware, and even content. Can you delineate the probable magnitude of those risks? To what extent has such damage occurred in the past, either with the Test Pilot program or with comparable programs? Specifics would be much appreciated.

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Hey there! I'm one of the engineers on the Test Pilot team. I'll try to answer your question.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't discuss provisions in the Terms of Use. (I will try to get someone from legal to add an answer.) Consider, though, that we do a lot of QA before releasing add-ons / add-on updates, and haven't seen any major breakage. Also, there are a lot of people using each of the experiments (currently 5,000-10,000 people trying each of them), and nobody's filed a bug mentioning significant damage to their hardware or software or Firefox profile.

So, again, I'm not a lawyer, and you will have to accept the terms to use the software--but the evidence suggests that, if many users have no major problems, you likely won't either.

You can take a look at the open and closed issues on each experiment for yourself; the bug trackers are public, and they are listed on our wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot#Found_a_bug.3F

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have other questions.

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Hey there! I'm one of the engineers on the Test Pilot team. I'll try to answer your question.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't discuss provisions in the Terms of Use. (I will try to get someone from legal to add an answer.) Consider, though, that we do a lot of QA before releasing add-ons / add-on updates, and haven't seen any major breakage. Also, there are a lot of people using each of the experiments (currently 5,000-10,000 people trying each of them), and nobody's filed a bug mentioning significant damage to their hardware or software or Firefox profile.

So, again, I'm not a lawyer, and you will have to accept the terms to use the software--but the evidence suggests that, if many users have no major problems, you likely won't either.

You can take a look at the open and closed issues on each experiment for yourself; the bug trackers are public, and they are listed on our wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot#Found_a_bug.3F

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have other questions.

ellee
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Hi Odin14,

I am from Mozilla's legal team. Although I can't provide any guidance or advice for your specific situation, I wanted to take a moment to respond to let you know that similar provisions to the one you mentioned also exist for all of Mozilla's software and services, including the Mozilla Public License 2.0 which is the license for Mozilla Firefox. You can learn more at https://www.mozilla.org/about/legal/ !