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Overview

  • A Glossary of Common Terms
  • A Quick Guide to Mozilla Applications

Getting Started

  • Getting Set Up To Work On The Firefox Codebase

Working On Firefox

  • Working on Firefox
    • Firefox Contributors’ Quick Reference
    • Working with stack of patches Quick Reference
    • Pocket Guide: Shipping Firefox
    • Editor / IDE integration
    • Getting reviews
    • Levelling up
    • How to submit a patch
    • Data Review
    • Code Review FAQ
    • Reviewer Checklist
    • Capturing a minidump
    • Debugging A Hang On macOS
    • Debugging A Minidump
    • Debugging Firefox with GDB
    • Debugging Firefox with LLDB
    • Debugging Firefox with Pernosco
    • Debugging Firefox with rr
    • Debugging Firefox with Valgrind
    • Debugging On macOS
    • Debugging On Windows
    • Debugging WebRTC Calls
    • Symbolicating TreeHerder stacks locally
    • How to get a process dump with Windows Task Manager
    • How to get a stacktrace for a bug report
    • How to get a stacktrace with WinDbg
    • Understanding Crash Reports
    • Signing Local macOS Builds
    • Firefox Source Code Directory Structure
    • Understanding Artifact Builds
    • Firefox for Mobile Devices
    • Supported Build Hosts and Targets
    • Engineering Show and Tell
    • Filing good bugs
  • Bug Handling

Firefox User Guide

  • Firefox DevTools User Docs

Source Code Documentation

  • Governance
  • Firefox Front-end
  • DOM
  • Editor
  • Style system (CSS) & Layout
  • Graphics
  • Processes, Threads and IPC
  • Firefox DevTools Contributor Docs
  • Toolkit
  • SpiderMonkey
  • JS Loader
  • GeckoView
  • Fenix
  • Focus for Android
  • WebIDL
  • libpref
  • Networking
  • Remote Protocols
  • Services
  • Permissions
  • File Handling
  • Firefox on macOS
  • Firefox on Windows
  • Firefox AI Runtime
  • Accessibility
  • Media Playback
  • Code quality
  • Writing Rust Code
  • Rust Components
  • Gecko Profiler
  • Performance
  • Database bindings (SQLite, KV, …)
  • XPCOM
  • NSPR
  • Network Security Services (NSS)
  • Web Security Checks in Gecko

The Firefox Build System

  • Mach
  • Pushing to Try
  • Build System
  • Firefox CI and Taskgraph
  • Managing Documentation
  • Vendoring Third Party Components

Testing & Test Infrastructure

  • Automated Testing
  • Understanding Treeherder Results
  • Sheriffed intermittent failures
  • Turning on Firefox tests for a new configuration
  • Avoiding intermittent tests
  • Testing Policy
  • Configuration Changes
  • Browser chrome mochitests
  • Chrome Tests
  • Marionette
  • geckodriver
  • Test Verification
  • WebRender Tests
  • Mochitest
  • XPCShell tests
  • TPS
  • web-platform-tests
  • GTest
  • Fuzzing
  • Sanitizer
  • Performance Testing
  • Code coverage
  • Testing & Debugging Rust Code

Releases & Updates

  • Mozilla Update Infrastructure
  • Watershed Updates
  • Desupport Updates
  • Update Verify

Localization & Internationalization

  • Internationalization
  • Localization

Firefox and Python

  • mozbase
  • Using third-party Python packages

Metrics Collected in Firefox

  • Metrics
Firefox Source Docs
  • Working on Firefox
  • Report an issue / View page source

Working on Firefox

Welcome to the Firefox codebase. This is the home of the Firefox development process and source code documentation.

Making Changes To Firefox

  • Firefox Contributors’ Quick Reference
  • Working with stack of patches Quick Reference
  • Pocket Guide: Shipping Firefox
  • Editor / IDE integration
  • Getting reviews
  • Levelling up
  • How to submit a patch
  • Data Review

Code reviews

  • Code Review FAQ
  • Reviewer Checklist

Debugging

  • Capturing a minidump
  • Debugging A Hang On macOS
  • Debugging A Minidump
  • Debugging Firefox with GDB
  • Debugging Firefox with LLDB
  • Debugging Firefox with Pernosco
  • Debugging Firefox with rr
  • Debugging Firefox with Valgrind
  • Debugging On macOS
  • Debugging On Windows
  • Debugging WebRTC Calls
  • Symbolicating TreeHerder stacks locally
  • How to get a process dump with Windows Task Manager
  • How to get a stacktrace for a bug report
  • How to get a stacktrace with WinDbg
  • Understanding Crash Reports

Signing

  • Signing Local macOS Builds

Additional Information

  • Firefox Source Code Directory Structure
  • Understanding Artifact Builds
  • Firefox for Mobile Devices
  • Supported Build Hosts and Targets
  • Engineering Show and Tell
  • Filing good bugs
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