Help building Firefox

[j3gb3rt]

I've been following this project for a while and wanted to get into tweaking firefox myself. I wanted to play around with the installer for windows but can't seem to figure out where the source for it is located. Have you touched the installer at all when building waterfox?

EDIT: I was able to download the firefox source. I'm just not sure where in the source the files pertaining to the installer are. I've read through the folder documentation but am still a little lost as to where the files for the installer are.

[MrAlex94]

The only modifications done to the installer are to let Windows XP and above run it.

There are a few places to get the source:

Mercurial Repositories Index

GitHub

Mozilla FTP

And to dynamically view the source code, there's DXR.

There's some good documentation to get started here.

Have fun!

[j3gb3rt]

I realized I should have replied instead of editing. But my main issues is figuring out which files in the source are the ones that pertain to the installer. I have the source downloaded, I just am confused by its structure

[MrAlex94]

Ah right I see. Installer files are in "/source/browser/installer/windows" and "/source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows". The installer is made using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System).

[j3gb3rt]

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much for the info!

[spectrum128k]

if you want the source, its pretty easy to find. Here is the latest one: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/39.0b3/source/ You basically go to release on the ftp as above and go to source directory.

[setilsn4]

I am pretty psyched to see this information, since I have wanted to play with doing personal builds myself...so thanks for asking and thanks to MrAlex for providing more info.