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Hello everyone!

Multi-account containers (MAC) is looking for more contributors and we are asking for your help! Multi-account containers is an open-source Firefox extension that enhances your browsing experience by enabling color coded custom tab configurations. For more information on what you can do with MAC, check out this article.

MAC improvements heavily rely on our core community. There are currently 516 open issues on MAC's GitHub repository. These issues consist of bugs and feature requests.

A guide to setting up your local repository and starting to contribute can be found here.

Tips for contributing:

  1. Choose an issue that you would like to work on.
  2. Fork the repository and follow the instructions for setting it up locally.
  3. Run the add-on locally and try reproducing the issue.
  4. Debug add-ons by clicking the “Settings” icon in about:addons, and then clicking “Debug Add-ons”
  5. Click “Inspect” on the MAC add-on to open developer tools for the popup extension (see this documentation for more information)
  6. Once you have a fix ready, commit your changes with the following commit message template: “Fix #<insert issue id #>: ”
  7. Push your changes and open a pull request for review.

Have any questions? Head over to the Q&A section on our GitHub discussions.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Anyone got any good resource on how to get started developing addons from scratch?

Are there Jetbrains plugins or something to streamline the process?