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Firefox Desktop Development 101

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Saturday, 2022-02-05· at 15:30· D.mozilla· [developer-experience, frontend-architecture]

speaker

name:Mike Conley
links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.mozilla/mozilla_firefox_dev_101.mp4
slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1988IypnODb6BFjO0gM_2En8dtSJUn91g4GtJYoL4SFs/edit?usp=sharing

summary

Covers the onboarding process used for new Firefox desktop developers, explaining how they become familiar with the codebase. Describes relationships between Firefox and Gecko and between the Firefox and Thunderbird codebases, and shows what Firefox source code looks like and how developers explore it.

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