# fx36start

**Repository Path**: mirrors_mozilla/fx36start

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: fx36start
- **Description**: INACTIVE - http://mzl.la/ghe-archive - Static site generator for the Firefox 3.6 start page
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-21

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# Firefox 3.6 Start Page

This is a very simple static website generator for the Firefox 3.6 start page.

Based on [nocturnal](https://github.com/mozilla/nocturnal/), it takes a single
jinja2 template, throws in some translations from .lang files,, and generates a
bunch of static, localized output files.

## Usage

### Checkout

    git clone git://github.com/mozilla/fx36start.git

The localization files live in GitHub. Check them out into the subdirectory
"locale" to pull in translations.

    cd fx36start
    git clone https://github.com/mozilla-l10n/fx36start-l10n locale

### Choosing a build version

Specify a version to build in settings.py. Available versions are 'passive' and 'urgent'.
'Passive' is the default.

### Generating output files

Specify an output directory (it shouldn't be the same directory as the repo) and allow
a few seconds for the script to scrape Mozilla's FTP server.

    ./generate.py --output-dir html

To delete the output dir before generating the output (careful!), use
the --force option.

    ./generate.py --output-dir html -f

The build version can be overwritten with the --version command line argument.

    ./generate.py --version urgent --output-dir html -f

### Extracting .lang files

If you change localizable strings in the templates, you'll want to extract those
strings and add them to the .lang files.

    ./l10n_extract.py

should do the trick.

## License

This software is licensed under the [Mozilla Tri-License][MPL]:

    ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
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    The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
    1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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    Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
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    The Original Code is Nocturnal.

    The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Mozilla.
    Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2012
    the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.

    Contributor(s):
      Matthew Riley MacPherson <tofumatt@mozilla.com>
      James Long <jlong@mozilla.com>
      Fred Wenzel <fwenzel@mozilla.com>

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