Education/ComputerScience/Platform

Firefox is only one of many applications built on the Mozilla platform. The list of Mozilla based applications is quite long. All these applications are built on a common platform made up of the technologies outlined below.

XPCOM

XPCOM (which stands for cross platform component object model) is a technology that allows interfaces to be implemented in or called from C++, JavaScript, Java or Python on all operating systems. It's everywhere in Mozilla code. Learn to specify and implement XPCOM interfaces. Learn to use XPCOM API.

JavaScript and Spidermonkey

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