Hacking Mozilla.

Mozilla Hacker's Getting Started Guide

An Introduction To Hacking Mozilla.

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Linking Contents

What is Mozilla?
Motivation
Audience
Scope of this document
What does Netscape have to do with this?
C++ and JavaScript
NSPR - Netscape portable runtime
Threads
Object oriented programming & Modularity
Interfaces
XPCOM / nsISupports / nsCOMPtr
Exceptions / nsresult
Strings in C++
Graphical User Interface / XUL
Build System and Tree
Application Startup
Internal Notification System
Localization
Coding and Review Rules
Milestones
Bugzilla
Webtools / LXR / Bonsai
Finding more information