Monthly Archives: August 2009

HOWTO: Edit Mozilla code in 5 minutes – make a simple change and see the results instantly

A few days ago, one of my professors at National University of Singapore asked me if I could provide a screencast of making a change to Mozilla (Firefox) code and seeing the change post-re-compilation, for a CS2103 course (that I didn’t have to take due to it not being part of my module requirements). I happily obliged though, and here is the screencast:

Screencast in swf (just under 4 minutes)

(Created using Jing, and I have no idea how to convert it to Theora, so apologies for that.)

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