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Resources

Steps

- Check Firefox build prerequisites for the OS you will be using. I was using Windows 7. Windows Prerequisites

- Download the latest MozillaBuild package. This package contains other software that will be needed to successfully build Firefox.

- Install MozillaBuild. Default location is C:\mozilla-build.

- Run the one of the following batch files. In my case I am using visual studio 2010, so I lauched C:\mozilla-build\start-msvc10.bat.

start-msvc8.bat (VS 2005)

start-msvc9.bat (VS 2008)

start-msvc10.bat (VS 2010)

- Download the source code for the release version you would like to build. In this case, I downloaded the source code for Firefox 4.0b9

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	- Download the source code for the release version you would like to build. In this case, I downloaded the source code for [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/source/ Firefox 4.0b9]		- Download the source code for the release version you would like to build. In this case, I downloaded the source code for [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/source/ Firefox 4.0b9]