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Halreftest (for Hardware Acceleration & Layers Reftest) is an extension being developed to enable crowdsource testing of [[Platform/GFX/HardwareAcceleration|hardware acceleration]] and [[Gecko:Layers|layers]] on a greater variety of hardware combinations that Mozilla could reasonably expect to have access to internally. The tool will initially be promoted during QA testdays at periodic intervals, and may be promoted for wider distribution via some other channel after the graphics code has reached a desired level of stability. (what channel, and what criteria will we use to determine if it's ready for wider distribution?)  

When a user invokes the Halreftest extension, it displays a welcome page which describes the purpose of the extension and provides a "Start" button.  When the user clicks this, the extension will run a series of reftests which are bundled into the extension.  When the tests are complete, the extension will post the test results, along with some system data, to a database at Mozilla, where it can later be analyzed.