The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 147: August 15th, 2018

Links

• Watch this episode on new Air Mozilla
• Evernote Agenda

Shoutouts

• Les Orchard Hacks on Firefox Color
• Josh Marinacci Hacks on Firefox Reallity

Topics

• Mikes Firefox Color Theme
• Attempt to reproduce and (if reproducible) file the about:printpreview bug that I noticed during the stream
  1. Create a session with a single window and tab pointed at http://i.imgur.com/lmzNpx7.png
  2. Shut down the browser
  3. Start the browser and restore session automatically, so we have a single tab pointed at http://i.imgur.com/lmzNpx7.png
  4. Earlier noticed a about:printpreview tab[0].content.location but not this time….
• Bug 1478112 - Sort out how to best call this._getSwitcher().requestTab and this.updateCurrentBrowser during tabpanels selectedIndex change
• JS Time travel debugging AKA Project Delorean AKA WebReplay
  1. flip about:config switch : devtools.recordreplay.enabled
  2. Windows support Bug1310271
• Bug 1481466 - Themes are incorrectly displayed in preview mode

Episode 150 ideas?!

• Got ideas? Submit them in the Episode Rating form!
• AMA
• Work on some kind of user voted bug?
• Build a WebExtension to do something from scratch?
• Explore some other Mozilla project?
• Explore a non-Mozilla project and try to understand it?
• Explain some part of the codebase?
• Normal episode? (But wear a funny hat)?

Resource Links

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• Firefox Source Code Documentation
• mozconfigwrapper: A Wrapper to manage different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly: Mike's addon to track your review queues on Mozilla Phabricator
• Mike's Firefox Color Theme
• Firefox Monitor: Stay informed on new data breach of services you're using online
• Create a free Bugzilla account
• Codetribute: Find a good first bug to start contributing on a Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, and more). See the above link for creating a Bugzilla account first!
• Nathan Baggs livehacking / reverse engineering
• Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
• Emilio hacking on Firefox