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Geek reading Originally uploaded by mattyturner. Nice to see someone is still reading ‘Creating Applications With Mozilla‘! Sure, it’s badly dated after 3 years in some places, but much of it is still relevant for digging deeper into topics such as XBL and XPCOM. I’m proud of the achievement of getting that book out a [...]

I’m putting this discussion out there so others experiencing similar problems may find a solution. THE TASK Set up a decent build environment on Ubuntu, where I can build trees based on various different branches including Firefox 1.0.x, Firefox 1.5 (or anything based on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH) and the trunk. FALSE STARTS Some distros bundle up [...]

I’ve been developing a few extensions for Thunderbird recently, and wondered if Jed Brown’s ‘Restart Firefox’ extension was available for TB just to speed things up a bit. Apparently it is not, so I decided to do it myself. It’s a simple extension, just adding an entry to the File menu and/or a toolbar button [...]

We really do. We have some really interesting and challenging Mozilla development projects for you to work on. The requirements are below, and you can apply via the jobs page. If you are lacking in some of the areas mentioned, or have greaters skills in others, don’t let that stop you from applying. We will [...]

mozdev.org needs a sysadmin. Our current sysadmin, Andrew Leonard, has to step down due to time commitments but will be staying on a volunteer basis. Thanks to Andy for all the great work. The new incumbant will be thrown in at the deep end, as we are currently in the process of moving to a [...]