Re: A beginner's question, many thanks!

I think you need C or C++ knowledge to hack on Firefox core, but for 
Firefox extensions, you can use JavaScript, which would be a much easier 
way of adding or modifying Firefox functionality.

Jamal


On 7/20/2011 2:09 AM, Jinghui Niu wrote:
> I'm enthusiastic about Mozilla Firefox and have a keen passion to
> learn it. However, I am just a beginner programmer.
> Mozilla Firefox is written in C/C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL. Does
> this mean I will have to learn all of those programming languages and
> standards before I could actually make any true development on Firefox
> source code? I'm currently learning JavaScript and a little bit
> uncertain about my direction. So experts please advise me about the
> learning curve.
> I appreciate your advice. Thanks.
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