Fixing Bugs For Mozilla

Fixing Bugs For

Steps: Fixing Bugs For Mozilla


  1. Select a Mozilla Product

  2. Know Your Tools

  3. Find and Fix Bugs and Show Off !!

Select a Mozilla Product

  • Mozilla Products:
    • Firefox
      • Firefox for Desktop
      • Firefox for Android
      • Firefox for Metro
    • Firefox OS
    • Thunderbird
    • Seamonkey
    • Mozilla Services
    • And many more...

Know Your Tools!

  1. IRC
  2. Mailing Lists
  3. Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
  4. Mercurial
  5. MXR
  6. Mach
  7. Bugzilla

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)


IRC Chat Client - Chatzilla, XChat....

irc.mozilla.org

#introduction, #india

Mailing Lists


https://lists.mozilla.org

Mozilla India Community - community-india@lists.mozilla.org

Mozilla Developer Networks (MDN)


https://developer.mozilla.org

Treasure Trove of Documentation of the Open Web

Mercurial


Cross-platform, distributed version control tool

hg is the Mercurial command-line tool, Hg being the chemical symbol for the element mercury.

MXR


http://mxr.mozilla.org

Cross reference designed to display the Mozilla source code

Search the source code for your keywords

Mach


German word for 'do'

Command-line interface to build source code and run tests

Bugzilla


http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Web-based Bug Tracker | Mozilla Bug Database

Find, Fix and File Bugs here

Find Bugs

  • Bugs Ahoy! (Developed by Josh Matthews)
    • Lists all 'Good First Bugs'
    • Filter Bugs by Components/Language
  • Bugzilla

Steps: Fix Bugs

  1. Show your interest
  2. Research and Understand
  3. Write Code
  4. Upload Patch
  5. Loop untill you get a 'r+'

PROUDLY SHOW OFF !



Show Off your contributions!




Example Bug that I had fixed !!


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