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=Screenshot=
Here's a [http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~mspeh/cs1/ff3_screenshot.png screenshot of the Help > About Mozilla Firefox dialog] for my Firefox custom build: [[Image:Melz_ff3ss.png]]
=Conclusion=
Overall, I think it was quite an interesting adventure, having compiled my own custom build of Firefox. This is the first GUI application I ever compiled on Linux and I must admit it also has the largest codebase I ever handled for a single application.
Along the way, I picked up a lot of useful knowledge, particularly those relating to maximizing my Linux experience. I'm not covering them in this report since the topics I had to delve into ranged from changing boot options all the way to simple commands for switching to console mode.
However, I definitely would want to rebuild the source tree again sometime soon because I broke a number of "rules" by not cleaning up my object folder after a compile error. Obviously, I was playing with fire by doing so, but since I didn't want to spend extra time re-compiling everything, I went ahead and risked it. In fact, I'm still amazed I successfully built Firefox from CVS that way.
This entire build process wouldn't have been successful without help from the various people at the #seneca IRC channel, the build documentation at Mozilla Developer Centre, and good 'ol trusty Google. Thanks for all your help!
