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== '''~~en construction~~:'''Research == :At first I had decided to build Firefox using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP. No knowing where to start I did what I usually do when I don’t have a clue about something. I googled it. Using the following search query “build Firefox using visual studio” in google I was directed to [http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~david.humphrey/writing/firefox-win32-build.html].

~~== '''~~:~~''' Research ==~~I followed the instructions on that page up to the point where the buildsetup.bat needed to be executed. It did not work. I was unable to execute the script. I knew this because it wasn’t setting up the correct environmental variables for CVS to work properly. After an hour of struggle with this problem I decided to give up on Windows and decided to try my luck with OS X.

:I chose to build Firefox using the release 1.5.0.6 source which was available online on the mozilla release [http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6/source/ website]. I downloaded firefox-1.5.0.6-source.tar.bz2 and then extracted the content of the archive into /Users/Moe/proj/.

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:At first I had decided to build Firefox using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP. No knowing where to start I did what I usually do when I don’t have a clue about something. I googled it. Using the following search query “build Firefox using visual studio” in google I was directed to [http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~david.humphrey/writing/firefox-win32-build.html].

:I followed the instructions on that page up to the point where the buildsetup.bat needed to be executed. It did not work. I was unable to execute the script. I knew this because it wasn’t setting up the correct environmental variables for CVS to work properly. After an hour of struggle with this problem I decided to give up on Windows and decided to try my luck with OS X.

:I searched google with the following query “mac osx build firefox” and this page [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation] was returned as one of the search results. I then followed the instructions on the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation build documentation] page and at the end was able to get Firefox built and running in no time.

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