User:Minooz/OSD600/FF

FIREFOX

My works on firefox stuff

1. Firefox Build

For building firefox I followed the instructions on annasob's blogon how to build firefox on different platforms, also looked at build instructions and prerequisites @Mozilla Developing Center(MDC). I didn't figure out why it was so slow though on both Vista and Win 7.

First, I tried to build firefox on Vista:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 2.17 GHz - 2GB DDR2 memory - Windows Vista 32bit - Visual Studio 2010

and this was my .mozconfig:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-ff-release

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j2"

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

ac_add_options --disable-optimize

ac_add_options --enable-debug

Then I started to build it on Windows 7:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 3.20 GHz - 4GB DDR2 memory - Windows 7 64bit - Visual Studio 2008

I tried to build based on the same .mozconfig file, but the first error I got was related to SDK. I needed to upgrade SDK version based on these recommendations to SDK 7, and the .Net Framework to 4. Also I needed to change the SDK version in the SDK configuration tool to 7.1.

At the end, the build was successfully done after 2 hours on Win 7 and more than 4 hours on Vista!

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2. Firefox practice (Tabs)

Source Control: mercurial

Blog: @ wordpress

• problem1

Open a new tab right beside the selected tab.

Target file to be changed @mozilla-central

• Patch

patchMoz_newTab

• problem2

Instead of using alt+tab+num to switch between open tabs, use ctr+tab+num.

Target file to be changed @mozilla-central

• Patch

patchMoz CtrlTab

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Firefox Bug (WhiteSpaces)

Source Control: mercurial

BugTracker: bugzilla

Blog: @ wordpress

• Bugs

Make is_space() in nsImageMap.cpp HTML5-compliant. Ticket @bugzilla #565031

Target file to be changed @ mozilla-central

• Documentation

• Helpful tips

• Patches

patchMoz_Apr6

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