Build your own Firefox

Hands on session on how to build Firefox from sources and write patches, for the event MozTI @ BESU

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1. Build your own Firefox Sankha Narayan Guria @sankha93
2. Why build your own? Unique hands on experience To know how the browser works Play with the code
3. Why build your own? Unique hands on experience To know how the browser works Play with the code Most Important: The Geek Cred
4. Know your Tools
5. Mailing Lists dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org community-india@lists.mozilla.org
6. IRC irc.mozilla.org #Introduction, #developers, #india
7. IRC Help and get help Central point of all live discussion Your chance to chat with Firefox developers
8. Mozilla Developer Docs Your universe begins here. Need anything? Just check it on http://developer.mozilla.org/
9. Mercurial Version Control System used for the Mozilla Repository.
10. Mach Our build ninja. Close your eyes. Your Firefox will be built.
11. What are we waiting for? Lets build our own Firefox. Start here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction
12. Developing for Firefox Contribute code to the browser. Check out open bugs. Volunteer and fix them.
13. Bugzilla • Every change/feature in Firefox is a “bug” • Lookup and track different bugs • Learn from others code http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
14. MXR • Mozilla’s Intelligent Code Indexer. • Search for your required keywords. • The full “mozilla-central” at your finger tips. http://mxr.mozilla.org/
15. How to begin? Most bugs look difficult, eh? Begin with “good first bugs”.
16. Bugs Ahoy • Lists all the “good first bugs”. • Search by component/language. http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
17. The procedure • Volunteer for a bug. • Study the bug. • Write the code. • Make a patch. • Loop until you get a ‘r+’. Lets write a sample patch.
18. Thanks!