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Is Firefox really open sourced?

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I've been using Firefox for a while now and I am quite satisfied by it. I have always heard that it is open source, and I recently tried looking on GitHub to see if there was some sort of repo with the source in it, however, I wasn't able to find such a thing. Is the Firefox source code available to view?

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Firefox is open source. It isn't hosted on GitHub, though, or even managed in Git - it's managed in mercurial and self-hosted at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/

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There is now a read-only mirror on GitHub:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev

which contains some helpful links to the Mercurial source, to a "How to Contribute" page, and to a page titled "Getting Set Up To Work On The Firefox Codebase".


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Is Firefox really open sourced?

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I've been using Firefox for a while now and I am quite satisfied by it. I have always heard that it is open source, and I recently tried looking on GitHub to see if there was some sort of repo with the source in it, however, I wasn't able to find such a thing. Is the Firefox source code available to view?


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Firefox is open source. It isn't hosted on GitHub, though, or even managed in Git - it's managed in mercurial and self-hosted at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/

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Clone it like this: hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ firefox - user14263 Dec 23, 2022 at 21:31

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