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=Introduction=
I successfully built the Firefox brower (bleeding edge version) on Ubuntu Linux using gcc. Amazingly, I managed to compile it on an ancient AMD 1.1GHz machine with '''256MB''' of RAM. I'm well aware of the minimum build requirements but since I had restricted resources over the weekend, I went ahead anyway.
The entire process wouldn't have been successful without help from various resources such as the #seneca IRC channel, the build documentation at Mozilla Developer Centre, and good 'ol trusty Google.
The entire journey took approximately two days. As you may have guessed, most of the problems that occured were due to hardware issues (ie. lack of memory). But this just proves that where there's a will, there's always a way!
