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Mozilla Source and Symbol Server

132 bytes removed, 23:11, 11 October 2007
Overview
Mozilla has a [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_symbol_server symbol server] for Windows builds that allows developers or users to debug nightly and release builds without having to ship debug symbols along with the builds. This can be very useful when a user has a problem that developers can't reproduce, or when you hit a crash or hang during your normal browsing, not using a debug build.
While this is very useful, it doesn't provide source-level debugging. You can see function names and call stacks, but not the source at the location, which makes stepping through code very difficult. Luckily, Microsoft does provide a means to add source info to debug symbols, called a [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680641.aspx source server]. Your The mission of this project is to sort through the Microsoft documentation and figure out how to add this to the existing Mozilla symbol server. The reward is having hundreds of developers and untold numbers of end users thank you for making life easier, and difficult crashes easier to fix.
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