Smoke Jumper:

A smokejumper is a wildland firefighter who parachutes into a remote area to combat wildfires.

The Smoke Jumper project is an effort to bring dead simple, secure, P2P file sharing to Firefox.

Prerequisites:

The latest and greatest from the Alder branch of Firefox:

Follow these steps, but use the Alder branch instead of mozilla-central.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_build

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/alder/

Server Installation:

In the root of the project, run the following:

gt; npm install
gt; NODE_ENV=development ./app.js

This defaults to http://localhost:3000/. A few things are hard-coded at the moment, so it’s best to run it on that port.

Open a browser to http://localhost:3000/ you’ll be redirected to a unique URL. Open that url in another tab.

Tips & Tricks:

This is mostly a placeholder for running the basic demo, for now:

Running two Firefox profiles simultaneously:

First, we create two profiles that we’re going to use to test with. For this we use the profile manager:

~/projects/alder/obj-x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0/dist/NightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -profilemanager

Then we run an instance of our Alder build for each profile we just created. I named them “Andy” and “Beth”.

~/projects/alder/obj-x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0/dist/NightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p Andy -no-remote ~/projects/alder/obj-x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0/dist/NightlyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p Beth -no-remote