How do you reason about a codebase the size of Firefox’s? How do you figure out who calls the function you’re messing with, without losing your context in an endless stream of false-positive-infested greps? You bust out DXR, Mozilla’s code search and static analysis tool. Continue reading
Preface This is guest post from one of webdev’s awesomesauce community contributors: Nigel Babu. nigelb contributes to a bunch of Mozilla’s web apps including Firefox Input and Socorro. He writes about Mozilla and open source on his blog and hangs … Continue reading
Mozilla is a large, highly visible, open source organization, with loads of contributors who commit code to, document, and localize our products. A big part of our success is our community, and our web apps are a big part of … Continue reading
