The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 215: May 13th, 2020

Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out
Bug 1622088 - Write automated tests for the about:home caching mechanism
Bug 1633913 - Eliminate re-construction of Top Sites and Pocket stories when about:home startup cache loads before Activity Stream initializes
- (Short description, activity stream flickers when opening about:home)
Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
- First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.
Talked about how the http cache works.
Talked about how the omni.jar file works.
Explained the difference between ‘mach try’ and add a patch to Phabricator.
Mozilla has Code coverage
If you ‘hg amend’ and get Orphaned changesets, you can fix that with ‘hg evolve’
Hit the escape key in Browser toolbox to get the terminal at the bottom
You can not json encode a undefined value
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Fission - Read more about it
mozconfigwrapper - A Wrapper to keep different mozconfigs
MyQOnly Mikes Addon for showing how many reviews are in your review queue - Source at Github
Mikes Firefox Color Theme
Codetribute - Go here to find Mentored bugs to hack on, ie good for beginners
Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor