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Assignment 1 Building FireFox

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Steps to Build FireFox
## At the prompt enter: cvs co mozilla/browser/config mozilla/client.mk and a mozilla sub folder will be created inside the proj folder
## go to the mozilla folder: cd mozilla
## Create a file named .mozconfig using notepad or someother editor and place it in the mozilla directory. The contents for this file can be obtained from This file contains has the settings The contents of the this file can be found within the #.mozconfig File section of the #Appendix. You will notice that the last line of the .mozconfig file disables the installer thus NSIS is not required. If you omit this line then, NSIS (2.17 or greater) must be installed and its install directory (and not the 'bin' directory) added to your path.More information relating to the specifics of this file can be found in the Configuring Build Options section of the Windows build guide made available by the Mozilla Developer Center.
Begin source file download by issuing the following command: make -f client.mk checkout
To compile the source type make -f client.mk build
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