Modules/Desktop Firefox

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Name:	Desktop Firefox (#)
Description:	Standalone Web Browser.
Owner:	Dave Townsend, Gijs Kruitbosch
Fallback Peer(s):	Dão Gottwald, Jared Wein, Marco Bonardo, Matthew Noorenberghe
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Brian Bondy, Lina Cambridge, Luke Chang, Ricky Chien, Justin Dolske, Georg Fritzsche, Felipe Gomes, Tim Guan-tin Chien, Johann Hofmann, KM Lee Rex, Fred Lin, Ray Lin, Fischer Liu, Bill McCloskey, Mark Mentovai, Ted Mielczarek, Brian Nicholson, Neil Rashbrook, Asaf Romano, Marina Samuel, J Ryan Stinnett, Gregory Szorc, Tim Taubert,
Source Dir(s):	browser/, toolkit/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox, Toolkit
URL(s):	Code Review Guidelines
Discussion Group:	firefox-dev

Submodules

Name:	Add-ons Manager (#)
Description:	Extension management back-end.
Owner:	Shane Caraveo, Luca Greco
Peer(s):	Luca Greco, Tomislav Jovanovic, Rob Wu, William Durand
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Robert Strong, Andrew Swan, Kris Maglione
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/mozapps/extensions/

Name:	Add-ons Manager UI (#)
Description:	about:addons.
Owner:	Shane Caraveo, Mark Striemer
Peer(s):	Luca Greco, Tomislav Jovanovic, Rob Wu
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Robert Strong, Andrew Swan
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/mozapps/extensions/content/

Name:	Application Update (#)
Description:	The application update services.
Owner:	Kirk Steuber
Peer(s):	Molly Howell, Adam Gashlin
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/mozapps/update/

Name:	Bookmarks & History (#)
Description:	The bookmarks and history services (Places).
Owner:	Marco Bonardo
Peer(s):	Mark Banner, Drew Willcoxon
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/places/, toolkit/components/places/

Name:	Desktop Theme (#)
Description:	The style rules used in the desktop UI.
Owner:	Dão Gottwald
Peer(s):	Itiel, Sam Foster
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Tim Nguyen
Source Dir(s):	browser/themes/, toolkit/themes/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Theme, Toolkit::Themes

Name:	Desktop UI (#)
Description:	The main browser UI except where covered by more specific submodules.
Owner:	Jared Wein
Peer(s):	Mike Conley, Florian Quèze
Source Dir(s):	browser/base/content/

Name:	Download Manager (#)
Description:	The downloads UI and service.
Owner:	Marco Bonardo
Peer(s):	Gijs Kruitbosch, Micah Tigley
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/downloads/, toolkit/mozapps/downloads/

Name:	Enterprise Policies (#)
Description:	System policies for controlling Firefox.
Owner:	Michael Kaply
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/enterprisepolicies/

Name:	Form Autofill (#)
Description:	Form detection and autocomplete.
Owner:	Sergey Galich
Peer(s):	Dimi Lee, Tim Giles
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Matthew Noorenberghe
Source Dir(s):	browser/extensions/formautofill/, toolkit/components/satchel/

Name:	In-product Messaging (#)
Description:	The system for delivering in-product messaging.
Owner:	Punam Dahiya
Peer(s):	Nan Jiang, Ed Lee, Kate Hudson,
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/components/messaging-system/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Messaging System
URL(s):	https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/components/newtab/content-src/asrouter/docs/index.html

Name:	Launcher Process (#)
Description:	Windows process for bootstrapping the browser process.
Owner:	Toshihito Kikuchi
Peer(s):	Molly Howell
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Aaron Klotz
Source Dir(s):	browser/app/winlauncher
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Launcher Process

Name:	Localization (#)
Description:	Tooling to enable translation and facilitate localization.
Owner:	Francesco Lodolo
Peer(s):	Matjaž Horvat, Eemeli Aro
Bugzilla Component(s):	Mozilla Localizations, Localization Infrastructure and Tools

Name:	New Tab Page (#)
Description:	The new tab/home page.
Owner:	Ed Lee
Peer(s):	Kate Hudson, Andrei Oprea, Scott Downe
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/newtab/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::New Tab Page

Name:	Experiments/Rollouts (#)
Description:	Desktop clients for our experiments and off-train deployments systems.
Owner:	Barret Rennie
Peer(s):	Gijs Kruitbosch, Emily McMinn
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Michael Cooper
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/components/normandy/, toolkit/components/nimbus/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Normandy,Firefox::Nimbus Desktop Client
URL(s):	https://experimenter.info/

Name:	Onboarding (#)
Description:	The onboarding experience including UI tours.
Owner:	Ed Lee
Peer(s):	Matthew Noorenberghe
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/uitour/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Tours

Name:	Password Manager (#)
Description:	Managing, saving and filling logins.
Owner:	Sergey Galich
Peer(s):	Sam Foster, Jared Wein, Tim Giles, Dimi Lee
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Matthew Noorenberghe
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Bianca Danforth, Severin Rudie
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/components/passwordmgr/, browser/components/aboutlogins
Bugzilla Component(s):	Toolkit::Password Manager, Toolkit::Password Manager: Site Compatibility, Firefox::about:logins
URL(s):	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Toolkit:Password_Manager

Name:	Picture-in-Picture (#)
Description:	A component that allows video elements to be pulled out into an always-on-top window.
Owner:	Mike Conley, Micah Tigley, Molly Howell
Peer(s):	Katherine Patenio, Niklas Baumgardner
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Micah Tigley
Source Dir(s):	toolkit/components/pictureinpicture, browser/extensions/pictureinpicture
URL(s):	https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/pictureinpicture/pictureinpicture/index.html

Name:	Preferences (#)
Description:	The front-end preferences system.
Owner:	Jared Wein
Peer(s):	Mark Striemer, Gijs Kruitbosch
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Tim Nguyen
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/preferences/, browser/themes/*/preferences, toolkit/mozapps/preferences

Name:	Profile Migration (#)
Description:	Migrating data from other browsers.
Owner:	Gijs Kruitbosch
Peer(s):	Marco Bonardo, Matthew Noorenberghe
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/migration/

Name:	Screenshots (#)
Description:	Code relating to Screenshots functionality
Owner:	Sam Foster
Peer(s):	Jared Hirsch, Niklas Baumgardner,
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Emma Malysz, Ian Bicking
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Barry Chen
Source Dir(s):	browser/extensions/screenshots, browser/components/screenshots/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Screenshots

Name:	Search and Address Bar (#)
Description:	The search service, address bar and address bar autocomplete.
Owner:	Mark Banner, Drew Willcoxon
Peer(s):	Dale Harvey, Marco Bonardo, Dão Gottwald
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Michael de Boer
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/search/, browser/components/urlbar/, toolkit/components/search/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Address Bar, Firefox::Search

Name:	Security and Privacy UI (#)
Description:	The front-end to our security and privacy features, including Protections UI, Site Identity, Site Permissions and Certificate Errors
Owner:	Paul Zühlcke
Peer(s):	Prathiksha
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Johann Hofmann
Peer(s) Emeritus:	Erica Wright, Nihanth Subramanya
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/protections/, browser/components/controlcenter/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Security, Firefox::Protections UI, Firefox::Site Identity, Firefox::Site Permissions

Name:	Session Restore (#)
Description:	Restoring a user's session after starting Firefox.
Owner:	Dão Gottwald, Dale Harvey
Peer(s):	Andreas Farre
Owner(s) Emeritus:	Michael de Boer, Kashav Madan, Anny Gakhokidze
Source Dir(s):	browser/components/sessionstore/, toolkit/components/sessionstore/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Session Restore

Name:	Tabbed Browser (#)
Description:	The UI component controlling browser tabs.
Owner:	Dão Gottwald
Source Dir(s):	browser/base/content/tabbrowser*, browser/modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Tabbed Browser

Name:	Windows Installer (#)
Description:	The installer for Windows.
Owner:	Molly Howell
Peer(s):	Adam Gashlin, Nick Alexander
Source Dir(s):	browser/installer/, toolkit/mozapps/installer/
Bugzilla Component(s):	Firefox::Installer