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At mozilla.org, we host discussion forums to enable communication among the developer community. Each forum is accessible either as a newsgroup, a mailing list, or over the web. We prefer that Mozilla-related discussion forums are set up in this way, because each of these three methods of access has its vocal proponents. mozilla.org also hosts an IRC server for real-time chat.
If you think a new Mozilla discussion forum is needed, email Gerv. It's not a complicated process. Please don't just go and set up a Google Group. :-)
Newsgroups
Mozilla newsgroups are sponsored by Giganews Newsgroups, to whom we are very grateful.
Giganews is sponsoring free access to the Mozilla Development Forums' Usenet hierarchy "mozilla.*". Please respect the parts of their Acceptable Use Policy which are relevant to non-Giganews subscribers. Use news.mozilla.org as the news server address in your news client. You will not need to use any authentication information.
The mozilla.* hierarchy is a local news hierarchy only available through news.mozilla.org and is not propagated to other Usenet servers. This is by design, in order to both help eliminate spam and provide slower lag time between posts and replies without having to wait for propagation. Please do not mirror our newsgroups elsewhere without providing a disclaimer that people should use news.mozilla.org to post.
Mailing Lists
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End-User Support
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.support.firefox(#) | Support for Firefox. |
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| mozilla.support.thunderbird(#) | Support for Thunderbird. |
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| mozilla.support.seamonkey(#) | Support for SeaMonkey, the community-driven continuation of the Mozilla suite. |
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| mozilla.support.bugzilla(#) | Support for the Bugzilla web-based bug-tracking tool. |
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| mozilla.support.calendar(#) | Support for the Calendar and Lightning projects. |
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| mozilla.support.webtools(#) | Support for webtools other than Bugzilla (e.g. Bonsai, Tinderbox, LXR, Doctor, Hendrix) |
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| mozilla.support.accessibility(#) | Support for using Mozilla with the keyboard, screen readers, screen magnifiers and voice dictation products. | |
| mozilla.support.other(#) | Support for other products or projects without a specific group. |
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| mozilla.support.planning(#) | For discussions about improving Firefox Support. |
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Projectwide Forums
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.announce(#) | New releases will be announced here. This is a low-volume, moderated group, for announcements only (not discussions). |
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| mozilla.announce.prerelease(#) | Announcements of Mozilla product pre-releases. |
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| mozilla.announce.labs(#) | Announcements from Mozilla Labs. |
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| mozilla.education(#) | For discussions about Mozilla's involvement in educational programs. |
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| mozilla.evangelism(#) | The Mozilla Tech-Evangelism project - persuading websites to use web standards. |
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| mozilla.events(#) | For discussions about Mozilla events. |
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| mozilla.general(#) | For everything with no forum of its own: discussion about any and all aspects of all the things that we're doing here at mozilla.org. |
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| mozilla.governance(#) | Governance of the Mozilla Project. |
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| mozilla.jobs(#) | For use by those interested in hiring folks to work on Mozilla-related projects as well as by those seeking such work. |
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| mozilla.legal(#) | For discussions about the licensing terms of the Mozilla source code and other legal issues. |
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| mozilla.marketing(#) | Our plans for world domination. |
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| mozilla.tools(#) | Discussion of the software development tools the Mozilla project uses (Hg, buildbot, bugzilla.mozilla.org, Tinderbox, bonsai...) |
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| mozilla.wishlist(#) | For discussions of future ideas, ranging from the practical to the far out. Read the wishlist FAQ to see if your wish has already been discussed. |
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Advocacy
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.community.drumbeat(#) | Mozilla Drumbeat - "people, ideas and action for a better Internet" |
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General Development
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.dev.accessibility(#) | For the accessibility development effort. |
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| mozilla.dev.amo(#) | For addons.mozilla.org development discussion. |
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| mozilla.dev.builds(#) | For discussions about compiling the source code or improving the build system. |
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| mozilla.dev.documentation(#) | For discussions about documentation: how it should be written, distributed, maintained, and so on. This is not the place to ask where help files are. |
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| mozilla.dev.embedding(#) | For embedding Mozilla components such as Gecko, ender, and JavaScript into software. |
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| mozilla.dev.extensions(#) | For extension developers. |
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| mozilla.dev.i18n(#) | For discussions about internationalization (I18N) issues. I18N is the infrastructure that allows software to be localized. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n(#) | For localization (L10N) issues. L10N is the process of adapting software to a specific language and culture (see also internationalization). |
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| mozilla.dev.mdc(#) | Mozilla Developer Center discussion |
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| mozilla.dev.mdc.feedback(#) | Developer Center feedback; includes output from MDC Hendrix. |
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| mozilla.dev.mozilla-org(#) | For people working on the mozilla.org website. |
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| mozilla.dev.performance(#) | Implementation of performance improvements to the Mozilla codebase. |
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| mozilla.dev.planning(#) | For project planning, meeting minutes, roadmap discussions. |
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| mozilla.dev.platform(#) | For people working on Mozilla-the-platform. |
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| mozilla.dev.quality(#) | For QA discussion, including using Bugzilla, Mozilla testing, and bug triaging. Do not report bugs here. |
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| mozilla.dev.security(#) | Security issues such as specific security problems or ideas for making the code as a whole more secure can be discussed here. Cryptography, however, is not within this group's charter. |
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| mozilla.dev.security.policy(#) | Discussion of security-related policies, governance, and related topics; and responsibility for the Mozilla CA certificate policy. |
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| mozilla.dev.static-analysis(#) | For discussion about Pork, Dehydra, rewriting and static analysis projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.super-review(#) | This forum is a mirror of the super-review mailing list. Requests for patch review and change of review status in Bugzilla are automatically posted here. |
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| mozilla.dev.themes(#) | For theme developers. |
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| mozilla.dev.tree-management(#) | For discussion about general development tree health and practices for managing it. |
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| mozilla.dev.usability(#) | For discussions on user interface and usability issues, including future directions, cross-platform consistency, and so on. |
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| mozilla.community.web-standards(#) | The community of Mozilla people involved in web standards efforts. |
Mozilla Technologies
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.dev.tech.crypto(#) | For discussions about cryptography, and cryptographic issues surrounding the Mozilla source code. See the PKI project for more info. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.crypto.checkins(#) | Join this list if you'd like to be automatically notified of all check-ins to Mozilla's crypto code. | |
| mozilla.dev.tech.dom(#) | For discussions about the Document Object Model (DOM) in Mozilla. For scripting discussions, see the scripting resources page. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.editor(#) | For discussions about HTML and text editing controls, including the Composer component, rich text editing and text widgets. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.gfx(#) | For people working on Mozilla's graphics subsystem, including the port to Cairo. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.java(#) | For discussions about Java: both embedding JREs in Mozilla and extending Mozilla itself using Java code. Also check out the plug-in forum. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine(#) | For JavaScript engines, including Spidermonkey (JavaScript in C) and Rhino (JavaScript in Java). For scripting support, see the scripting resources. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino(#) | For discussions about Rhino. Implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. | |
| mozilla.dev.tech.layout(#) | For discussions about document layout in Mozilla, including Gecko. Also check out the style and SVG forums. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.ldap(#) | For discussions about the C SDK, Java SDK, and PerLDAP, which are toolkits for developing LDAP applications. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.mathml(#) | For discussions about the implementation of W3C's Mathematical Markup Language. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.network(#) | For discussions about the Mozilla Networking Library, a.k.a. netlib. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.nspr(#) | For discussions about the portable runtime code used by Mozilla. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.plugins(#) | For discussions about plug-ins. Developers may also check out the Java and NSPR forums. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.rdf(#) | For discussions about the Resource Description Framework (RDF) including the Aurora module. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.sql(#) | For discussions about using SQL in Mozilla. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.svg(#) | This is the project forum for implementing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Mozilla. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xbl(#) | For discussion about the XML Bindings Language (XBL). |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xforms(#) | For discussion about XForms in Firefox and Mozilla. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xml(#) | For discussions about using XML in Mozilla. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom(#) | This forum is for discussions about the Cross-Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) that we are using to purvey and discover interfaces between independently versioned and loaded modules. XPCOM combined with XPIDL also provides scriptability. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xpinstall(#) | For discussions about installation related technology in Mozilla including packaging and updating. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xslt(#) | For discussions of use of the XSL Transformations language in the Mozilla layout engine. |
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| mozilla.dev.tech.xul(#) | For discussion about the XML-based User-interface Language (XUL). |
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Application Development
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla(#) | For development of the Bugzilla bug-tracking system (for support, see mozilla.support.bugzilla). |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.calendar(#) | For development of the standard-based Calendar projects - Sunbird and Lightning. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.chatzilla(#) | For development of the Chatzilla IRC chat extension. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.dom-inspector(#) | For development of the DOM Inspector, an extension to help web developers peer inside pages. | |
| mozilla.dev.apps.firefox(#) | For development of Firefox, a lightweight browser built on the Mozilla platform. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.js-debugger(#) | For discussions about the JavaScript Debugger (Venkman). Questions about how to use, program, or document the debugger, as well as feature requests are on-topic here. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey(#) | This forum is for developers working on Seamonkey, the community continuation of the Mozilla software suite. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird(#) | For development of Thunderbird, an email client built on the Mozilla platform. |
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| mozilla.dev.apps.webtools(#) | mozilla.org has developed several Web-based tools for code management, including Bonsai (CVS queries), and Tinderbox (continuous automated builds). This forum is for discussion of their development. (For the Bugzilla bug-tracking system, see above.) |
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Ports To Other OSes
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.dev.ports.os2(#) | For discussions about porting Mozilla to OS/2. |
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| mozilla.dev.platforms.linux(#) | For coordinating more involvement from the Linux distros and community. |
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| mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile(#) | For discussions about the Mozilla platform on mobile devices. |
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Regional
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.community.india(#) | The Mozilla community in India. |
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| mozilla.community.philippines(#) | The Mozilla community in the Philippines. | |
| mozilla.dev.l10n.cs(#) | For discussion of the Czech localization of Mozilla products. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.de(#) | For discussions of the German localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.fa(#) | For discussions of the Persian localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.in(#) | For discussions of the Indian localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.pl(#) | For discussions of the Polish localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.sk(#) | For discussion of the Slovak localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.sr(#) | For discussion of the Serbian localization of Mozilla projects. |
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| mozilla.dev.l10n.web(#) | For Mozilla website localization co-ordination. |
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| mozilla.dev.mdc.es(#) | For discussion about Spanish content on Mozilla Developer Center. |
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| mozilla.dev.mdc.ja(#) | For discussion about Japanese content on Mozilla Developer Center. |
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| mozilla.dev.mdc.pt(#) | For discussion about Portuguese content on Mozilla Developer Center. |
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Feedback
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.feedback.firefox(#) | Output of Firefox feedback from Hendrix. |
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| mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease(#) | Output of Firefox pre-release feedback from Hendrix. | |
| mozilla.feedback.thunderbird(#) | Output of Thunderbird feedback from Hendrix. |
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| mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease(#) | Output of Thunderbird pre-release feedback from Hendrix. | |
| mozilla.feedback.companion.ebay(#) | Output of Ebay Companion feedback. | |
| mozilla.feedback(#) | Output of general feedback from Hendrix. |
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Testing
Please read the Mozilla forum etiquette document for posting rules and conventions.
| mozilla.test(#) | For test messages. |
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| mozilla.test.multimedia(#) | For binary test messages. |
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Realtime Chat
You can talk to people in the community in real time by logging on mozilla.org's chat server (irc.mozilla.org) with an IRC client. Please read the /motd.