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Reputation: 2904

Building a Web Browser

As much as I'd love to ask it, this isn't one of those "How to make a web browser questions."

I am currently downloading Chromium. And Wow. It's huge. How can a browser be so massive? Especially when you compare it to the actual finished product that you download, which is only about 200MB.

Anyway. My question is, where can I obtain the source of Mozilla's browser? I have found a link from a Google search, but the page is telling me I do not have permission to view the requested page. Is there another resource I can obtain this download from online?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 180

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Passerby
Passerby

Reputation: 10070

Alright, extending from comment:

According to this MDN article, you can obtain Firefox source code from their FTP, using the version in path:

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/PROJECT/releases/RELEASE/source/

where the names in CAPITAL LETTERS mean the following:

  • PROJECT - The project name, such as firefox or thunderbird.
  • RELEASE - The release, such as 1.5.0.3 or bonecho.

For example, the source code for Firefox release 2.0.0.4 can be found at the following URL:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.4/source/

Upvotes: 1

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