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Revision as of 20:07, 20 October 2006
Run Firefox 1.5 in Debug mode
Written By Yi Shen.
Introduction
I previously wrote how to build Firefox in Windows, and here I was work on how to run firefox 1.5 in debug mode by Visual Studio 2003 debuger and better understand how certain things work.
Required
- Firefox 1.5 already build on Windows
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 installed
Instructions
First we need open the firefix project in Visual Studio:
File>Open>Project...
This will start the Open Project Dialog and you should navigate to your firefox.exe directory, for me it is:
C:\proj\mozilla\hopefullyWorked.firefox.optimized\dist\bin
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Visual Studio will create a Solution File (.sln) in the same directory as firefox.exe and give you the Solution Explorer
Now we are ready to set a breakpoint in a source file so we can stop Firefox and inspect it running at the appropriate point. Open a source file
File > Open > File...
For example for our Project:
C:\proj\mozilla\content\canvas\src\nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp
Then locate a line for your breakpoint and click to the left of the line number in the gray selection border then it set a red circle:
