This lab is designed to give you first-hand experience working collaboratively online, to get you engaged in developing software for the browser using extensions, and gain experience learning a new development model. to work on a collaborative project.

If your browser isn't up to date, grab a '''nightly''' build of Firefox [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ here]. This latest version of the browser can be downloaded, unzipped, and run form from a temp directory in the lab, or you can install the newest [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ official release] directly from Mozilla.org. '''NOTE:''' If you do download a second browser, and wish to run it at the same time as Firefox 2, you'll need to run your newly download browser in a special way (i.e., normally, only one version of Firefox can run at a time):  ''navigate to your new browser's directory, maybe C:\Program Files\Minefield firefox.exe -no-remote -profilemanager After running this command, you'll be able to create a new profile. Do this, and then you can run both your existing browser and the new one at the same time.

You are encouraged to work using online collaborative tools, and to work on the lab throughout the week. You will be expected to have complete completed the lab by the end of the day '''Friday Sept 12'''.