The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 278: Feb 9th, 2022

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• How to debug Firefox’s native code on macOS (lldb), then Linux (gdb), then Windows (Visual Studio)!
  • Optimized builds, unoptimized / debug builds, artifact builds
    • Why can’t we do native code debugging of artifact builds?
      • Configure Build Options
  • Attaching to a running instance of Firefox
    • https://lldb.llvm.org/use/map.html
    • MOZ_DEBUG_CHILD_PROCESS=1
    • https://rr-project.org/
    • https://pernos.co/
    • Attaching to the parent process
      • Windows: The Launcher Process
        • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=1495040
        • MOZ_DEBUG_BROWSERPAUSE=15
    • Attaching to the content process
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Other

• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• How mconley uses Mercurial
• 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
• Mike’s Firefox Color Theme
• Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor
• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
  • First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.