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Make FUEL work with Firefox 2

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== TODO ==

* ~~Current~~ At the moment FUEL is manually added to the build (see below). It will be much easier if the build script did it for us :)

== Project Details ==

At the moment FUEL only works on Firefox3. This project is dedicated in back porting FUEL to make it work with Firefox2

== fuelApplication.js ==

'''fuelApplication.js''' is located in '''mozilla/browser/fuel/src''' and will be the main file that will undergo the changes.

You can get the latest update of it [http://www.samerziadeh.com/mozilla/fuelApplication.js here]. It's just a plain text file, it doesn't have the fancy change revision.

Below are the list of the functions I tested with and what did and didn't work.

Working:

* Console

Not Working:

* Bookmarks

== Build Instructions ==

~~Here are the steps~~ We need to ~~build FUEL into ff2 (from scratch) '''[I built on Mac]'''~~ ~~First~~ create a directory to ~~checkout~~ throw the mozilla source in:.

<pre>mkdir mozilla-1.8-branch

cd mozilla-1.8-branch</pre>

~~Checkout out~~ This will fetch the ''client.mk'' file from mozilla.''client.mk'' contains info on how to configure the build tree to configure any productthe ''-r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH'' specifies to the server that we want the ''client.mk'' file from the 1.8 branch:

<pre>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk</pre>

~~Create~~ Now we need to create the ''.mozconfig '' file.It contains parameters for ''client.mk'' on how to checkout and build.The last ''ac_add_options'' line is not needed for non Mac machines.

<pre>cd mozilla

cat > .mozconfig << MOZCONFIG

MOZCONFIG</pre>

~~Checkout~~ After creating the MozConfig file we can begin downloading the source . (~~this process takes about 15 minutes~~around 220mb):

<pre>make -f client.mk checkout</pre>

~~Build ff (this could take anywhere between 30 and 90 minutes):~~Now we can start building firefox.

<pre>make -f client.mk build</pre>

When finished the firefox executable is found in the following directories

* xp/*nix: mozilla/dist/bin/firefox

* mac: mozilla/dist/bin/Something.app/Contents/MacOs/firefox

~~Get~~ To download FUEL:navigate to ''../mozilla''

<pre>cd ..

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/browser/fuel</pre>

~~Modify~~ Now that we have acquired the fuel source we need to modify the ''browser/Makefile.in'' to let the build know about the addition

<pre>cd mozilla/browser

vi Makefile.in</pre>

<pre>DIRS = base components locales extensions themes app fuel</pre>

~~Generate~~ The build script doesn't generate the fuel part automatically, which is why fuel is fetched after the build is done.The following steps will force the generation of the makefiles manually:, and then rebuild fuel and app

<pre>cd ../objdir

../build/autoconf/make-makefiles browser/fuel

make -C browser/fuelmake -C browser/app</pre>

and there you have it, FUEL is now built into ff2

~~== fuelApplication.js ==~~

~~'''fuelApplication.js''' is located in '''mozilla/browser/fuel/src''' and will be the main file that will undergo the changes.~~

~~You can get the latest update of it [http://www.samerziadeh.com/mozilla/fuelApplication.js here]~~

== Links ==

* [http://samermozilla.blogspot.com/ Samer's Blog]

* [http://quality.mozilla.org/en/node/452 How To Build a Mozilla Tree]

* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/FUEL FUEL]

* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/FUEL FUEL docs]

* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390335 bug #390335]

* [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/find?string=fuel%2Ftest%2Fbrowser_&tree=seamonkey FUEL JS Test Files]

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