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There are lots of ways to contribute to the Mozilla project: coding, testing, improving the build process and tools, or contributing to the documentation. This guide provides information that will not only help you get started as a Mozilla contributor, but that you'll find handy to refer to even as an old hand.

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Documentation topics

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+ Getting Started
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+ A step-by-step beginner's guide to getting involved with Mozilla.
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+ Working with Mozilla Source Code
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+ A code overview, how to get the code, and the coding style guide.
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+ Build Instructions
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+ How to build Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, or other Mozilla applications.
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+ Development process overview
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+ An overview of the entire Mozilla development process.
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+ Managing multiple profiles
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+ When working with prerelease versions of Firefox, it's often helpful to have multiple Firefox profiles, such as one for each channel, or for different kinds of testing.
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+ Automated Testing
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+ How to run Mozilla's automated tests, and how to write new tests.
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+ How to submit a patch
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+ After getting your patch written, you need to get it checked into the tree. This article explains the review process and how to get your patch approved.
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+ Getting documentation updated
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+ How to ensure that documentation is kept up to date as you develop.
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+ Mozilla modules and module ownership
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+ This article provides information about Mozilla's modules, what the role of a module owner is, and how module owners are selected.
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+ Code snippets
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+ Useful code samples for a wide variety of things you might need to figure out how to do.
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+ Mozilla development strategies
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+ Tips for how to make the most of your time working on the Mozilla project.
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+ Debugging
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+ Find helpful tips and guides for debugging Mozilla code.
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+ Performance
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+ Performance guides and utilities to help you make your code perform well (and to play nicely with others).
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+ The Mozilla platform
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+ Information about the workings of the Mozilla platform.
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+ Adding APIs to the navigator object {{ gecko_minversion_inline("9.0") }}
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+ How to augment the {{ domxref("window.navigator") }} object with additional APIs.
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+ Interface Compatibility
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+ Guidelines for modifying scriptable and binary APIs in Mozilla.
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+ Customizing Firefox
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+ Information about creating customized versions of Firefox.
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+ Virtual ARM Linux environment
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+ How to set up an ARM emulator running Linux for testing ARM-specific, but not necessarily platform-specific, code. Useful for mobile developers.
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+ Obsolete Build Caveats and Tips
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+ A place to put build tips which are no longer relevant to building the latest version of the code from main but are relevant when building old codebases.
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Tools

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+ Bugzilla
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+ The Bugzilla database used to track issues for Mozilla projects.
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+ MXR
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+ Browse and search the Mozilla source code repository on the Web.
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+ DXR
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+ Next generation of searching Mozilla's source code. In active development.
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+ Bonsai
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+ The Bonsai tool lets you find out who changed what file in the repository, and when they did it.
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+ Mercurial
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+ The distributed version-control system used to manage Mozilla's source code.
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+ Mozilla build VM
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+ A VirtualBox compatible virtual machine configured with all the software needed to build and work on Firefox.
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+ Treeherder
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+ Treeherder shows the status of the tree (whether or not it currently builds successfully).  Check this before checking in and out, to be sure you're working with a working tree.
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+ Crash tracking
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+ Information about the Socorro crash reporting system.
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+ Performance tracking: Datazilla and Graphs
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+ See performance information for Mozilla projects.
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+ Callgraph
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+ A tool to help perform static analysis of the Mozilla code by generating callgraphs automatically.
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+ Developer forums
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+ A topic-specific list of discussion forums where you can talk about Mozilla development issues.
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+ Mozilla Platform Development Cheat Sheet
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+ Brian Bondy's list of frequently referenced information for platform developers.
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+ Firefox development video tutorials
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+ Brian Bondy's video tutorials on Firefox development.
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