Mozilla Community and Projects

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Mozilla Community and Projects

• Michael Adeyeye
• (Mozilla Firefox Campus Representative)
• micadeyeye_at_gmail.com

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Disclaimer

• The contents of this presentation are outcomes of
  personal research, interactions with the Mozilla
  Corp. employees, scholars and volunteers, who are
  actively involved in the Mozilla Projects.
  Although efforts are made to present the right
  information, I do apologize for any
  misinformation that might occur and hope it would
  not be used against me in any case, such as
  filing a lawsuit against me.
• Thanks.

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Table of Contents

• Introducing Mozilla
• Mozilla Products
• Reusing Mozilla
• Why use Mozilla Firefox?
• Using the framework for research purposes
• Dive into the core

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Introducing Mozilla

• March 31, 1998 Netscape Communicator source
  code is posted on the Internet via mozilla.org.
• Firefox Web browser holds 20 of the worldwide
  market share.
• The community is governed by a virtual management
  team made up of unpaid experts and employees from
  a range of companies, including the Mozilla
  Corporation, IBM and Red Hat.
• Specific community contributions include
• 1. Fixing a bug or contributing code there
  are over 1,000 community code contributors,
  20,000 nightly testers and 500,000 beta
  testers.
• 2. Developing over 3,000 Firefox Add-ons, the
  small bits of downloaded software to customize
  the Firefox Web browser.
• 3. Creating versions of Firefox in over 40
  languages.

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Mozilla Products

• Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

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Mozilla Products

• Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client

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Reusing Mozilla

• ActiveState Komodo Edit

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Reusing Mozilla

• Songbird (similar to the Apple iTunes)

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Why use Firefox?

• Built-in Spell-check

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Why use Firefox?

• Built-in Crash Recovery

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Internet Relay Chat Chatzilla Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Firebug Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Web Developer Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Web Developer Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Yahoo Slow Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• Yahoo Slow Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• FireFTP Extension

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Why use Firefox as a web developer?

• SpiderZilla Downloads an entire Web site
  directory structure, including all XHTML, CSS,
  images.
• Image Zoom Have you ever wished that you could
  enlarge and view a particular image right from
  within your browser?
• IE View From within Firefox, allows you to open
  the current page into an instance of Internet
  Explorer. Helps ensure that your Web pages work
  well in multiple browser environments.
• ColorZilla If you want to manipulate colors and
  ease color-related tasks on a page you are
  developing, this is the tool to use.
• MeasureIt Ever need to know the length or width
  of something on your Web page in pixels?
  MeasureIt will tell you, with a graphical ruler
  and all. Very cool. Brought to us by Kevin
  Freitas.
• For more add-ons, visit the following URLs
• http//ciwcommunity.org/drupal5/?qnode/9
• https//addons.mozilla.org

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Using the framework for research purposes

• Jennifer Golbeck, Michael Wasser. 2007.
  SocialBrowsing Integrating Social Networks into
  Web Browsing. CHI 2007 Works-In-Progress. San
  Jose, California. April, 2007

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Using the framework for research purposes

• Two projects from the Grid Middleware Development
  Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University
  of California, San Diego, that used the Mozilla
  Framework are
• Topaz Extending Firefox to Accommodate the
  GridFTP Protocol
• Gemstone a mozilla-based rich client for
  accessing grid services

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Using the framework for research purposes

• TransferHTTP Extending Firefox to support SIP
  Protocol, a project from the Communication
  Research Group, University of Cape Town.

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Dive into the core

• XPCOM Viewer Extension

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Dive into the core

• The Directories

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Dive into the core

• The Files

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Dive into the core

• The Source Code

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Dive into the core

• Tindexbox

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• Bugzilla

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Dive into the core

• When can I start from?
• http//developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Hacking_Firef
  ox
• What languages/technologies are used to develop
  Mozilla Products?
• XPFE(XUL/JS/CSS), XPIDL, XPCOM (C/JS)
• Visit http//www.xulplanet.com/
• Where can I find help?
• IRC moznet (try channels such as extdev,
  developers, seneca, xulrunner)
• How can I access the source code?
• http//mxr.mozilla.org
• Getting started with extension creation
• http//kb.mozillazine.org/Extension_development
• http//ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensionwi
  z/
• http//zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Club_Moz
  
• http//www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/piaip/docs/CreateMozAp
  p/index.html

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• Thanks for listening
• Questions!!