Conceptual Architecture of Mozilla Firefox (version 2.0.0.3)

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We developed a conceptual architecture for Mozilla Firefox … The User Interface (UI) of the Mozilla browser (Firefox 2.0) is one major layer between …

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Conceptual Architecture of Mozilla
Firefox (version 2.0.0.3)
SEng 422 Assignment 1
Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan
June 1, 2007
Iris Lai
Jared Haines
John,Chun-Hung,Chiu
Josh Fairheadi
Table of Contents
Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
Conceptual Architecture of Mozilla Firefox…………………………………………………………….. 2
User Interface………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Gecko ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
Necko ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
XML Parser…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
JavaScript Interpreter ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 9
XPCOM ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10
Data Persistence …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11
References………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12
List of Figures
Figure 1: Reference Architecture of Mozilla Browser ………………………………………………. 2
Figure 2: Conceptual Architecture of Mozilla Firefox ………………………………………………. 2
Figure 3: User Interface Conceptual Architecture …………………………………………………….. 3
Figure 4: Gecko Conceptual Architecture ……………………………………………………………….. 5
Figure 5: Data flow within Gecko ………………………………………………………………………….. 5
Figure 6: Necko Conceptual Architecture ……………………………………………………………….. 7
Figure 7: XML Parsers………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Figure 8: XML Parser Architecture ………………………………………………………………………… 9
Figure 9: The JavaScript Interpreter ……………………………………………………………………… 10
Figure 10: XPCOM Conceptual Architecture…………………………………………………………. 10
Figure 11: Data Persistence Conceptual Architecture ……………………………………………… 11…