Mobile/Get Involved

This page is the place to learn how to start contributing to Firefox Mobile, also known as Fennec.

Firefox Mobile is developed by the Mozilla community. We're currently focused on making Firefox rock on Android phones and tablets. We hope this page will help you become an active member of our community! If you're looking for other ways to contribute to Mozilla, have a look at Mozilla's global page for new contributors.

If you still feel that you don't know where to start after reading this page, feel free to ping us on IRC, we can probably give you some ideas. We're always looking for ways to improve this page to make it easier to start contributing to Firefox Mobile. Suggestions and general feedback are more than welcome.

Hacking

Setting up a development environment for Firefox Mobile is relatively easy. Just follow our build instructions and you'll be ready to start hacking after a couple of hours—mostly waiting for everything to compile.

Before starting to work on a bug, you should make sure you have your development environment set up. When you're ready to start hacking, it's a good idea to add a comment to the bug report letting the mentor know that you want to work on it. Ideally, the bug report should already have relevant source code links to help you get started. If you're unsure whether to take a certain bug or not, you can always contact us for clarification. If the bug you're working on involves UI changes, request feedback from the UX team (see contact list below) before landing.

Resources

Here's a list of resources that you may find useful for hacking on Fennec. Feel free to add more if you find things are missing!

• MXR
• Mercurial FAQ
• mach
• Bugzilla 101
• Commit access policy
• JSConf EU 2012 - Firefox for Android overview
• Mozillians Directory
• Try Server

Mentor Bugs

If you are looking for guidance, we maintain a set of bugs that are marked with an assigned mentor (see "Whiteboard" field). The mentor will help you get the necessary information to understand the issue, point out relevant parts of the code to look at, etc. You can browse these bugs on Bugs Ahoy!, but here's a list of unassigned mentor bugs to get you started:

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Testing

If you want to help us find issues on the latest Fennec releases, join the Mobile QA team and participate in the breadth of areas that are offered. We're always looking for assorted Android Device coverage and a breadth of website compatibility testing.

Start by filing Firefox for Android Issues or converse directly with us on IRC about the bugs you find. Or watch the Events calendar for upcoming Mobile Testdays on focused topics! Testdays are an interactive opportunity to participate in real time with other community testers on testing and debugging.

Finally, subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter on the latest and greatest in Fennec features!

Useful links:

• Bug Writing Guidelines
• Report a Firefox for Android Bug
• QA Events Calendar

Support

Join our amazing volunteer support community dedicated to helping people get the most out of Firefox Mobile!

1. Create an account on SUMO - Creating an account gives you access to answering questions and editing articles about Firefox Mobile, where we give you credit for your contributions.
2. Answer support questions - Share your knowledge of Firefox Mobile by pointing people to the right help articles and providing troubleshooting steps for their individual questions. View and reply to the unanswered mobile support questions.
3. Improve the Knowledge Base - If you like to write or teach, improving the articles in the Knowledge Base is great way to help thousands of people each week. Currently we are looking for contributors to document the new Camera UI feature in Firefox Mobile and the new Tablet UI.

Communication

Subscribe to the mobile-firefox-dev mailing list to follow and participate in development discussions.

To keep in touch with the Mobile team on a daily basis, you should hang out on the #mobile channel at irc://irc.mozilla.org/mobile. We're always there, in different timezones. You can read the IRC wiki page for more details about joining IRC. If you want to talk to people from specific areas or have any questions, here are a few people you can ping:

• Front-end: bnicholson, lucasr, margaret, mbrubeck, mfinkle, sriram, wesj
• Platform: blassey, cpeterson, Cwiiis, gbrown, gcp, jchen, kats, snorp
• QA: AaronMT, kbrosnan, jhammink, mw22, nhirata, tchung
• Design: ibarlow, madhava
• Marketing: sam
• Support: michelleluna, rtanglao, tdowner
• Market data and insights: irina
• Project management: elancaster
• Product management: kar, dria

You should also be able to find us in the mobile Mozillians group.

For the latest developments, updates, pro-tips and happenings in the world of Firefox on Android, you should follow @FennecNightly on Twitter. You can also read our development blogs on planet mobile.