Hacking Firefox

Table of supported Visual Studio compilers

Branch	HEAD Gecko 1.9 Firefox 3	MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH Gecko 1.8.1 Firefox 2	MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH Gecko 1.8 Firefox 1.5.0.x
VC6	No	Yes (Official)	Yes (Official)
VC7 (Visual Studio 2002)	Not really	Yes	Yes
VC7.1 (Visual Studio 2003)	Yes	Yes	Yes
VC8 (Visual Studio 2005)	Yes (Official)	No	No
VC9 (Visual Studio Codename "Orcas")	Yes (Experimental)	No	No

Note 1: Firefox 1.5/2.0 / Gecko 1.8.x build instructions are not covered in this document.

Note 2: All information about VC9/"Orcas" relate to the January CTP. It may or may not be correct for previous or future releases.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites