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Is there a Firefox project for Visual Studio or Eclipse?

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Is there a Firefox project for Visual Studio 2017 (or another IDE like Eclipse) which will allow me to build Firefox from source code and debug it? I.e., set breakpoints, single-step, modify code, rebuild, etc.?

Is there a Firefox project for Visual Studio 2017 (or another IDE like Eclipse) which will allow me to build Firefox from source code and debug it? I.e., set breakpoints, single-step, modify code, rebuild, etc.?

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That's beyond the scope of this support forum, but here's a page to get you started:

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions

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Thanks very much for your response. Was hoping for a specific answer to the question. Want to avoid building my own Visual Studio project if it's already been done.

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The answer is out there. It just isn't here. ;-)

Check the MDN site for developer support links.

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Thanks much. I've Googled quite a bit, but found nothing.