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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.
** [http://landfill.mozilla.org/bonsai-test/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/makefile.win&rev=&root=%2Fhome%2Fcvsroot&raw=1 Example Usage]
* WinDbg comes with a perl script for doing some of this work, probably at C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows\sdk\srcsrv\cv2http.pl
* The symbolstore.py script in the Mozilla tree that builds the Breakpad symbol store [http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/toolkit/airbagcrashreporter/tools/symbolstore.py&rev=1.26&cvsrootroot=/cvsroot&mark=9664-12377#96 64 already has support for grabbing CVS revision numbers]