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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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