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Killing XUL has the potential of killing Firefox. I bet the last good XUL version will be forked.
by silon7 11y ago
Killing XUL has the potential of killing Firefox. I bet the last good XUL version will be forked.
- smacktoward 11y agoAnd then the person who forked it gets to maintain it! Lucky them.
- vinceguidry 11y agoNo need to be so snarky, he'll have all those other people out there who love XUL to help him.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoHe's right. Mozilla, a $200-300 million a year outfit, currently maintains their software including Firefox. It's a huge C++ application. People who code XUL in their spare time, even a bunch of them, aren't likely to make a dent in keeping parity between a Firefox fork and the main release. They'd likely have trouble even porting it. So, a fork is a rough solution and will have maintenance issues for an app this size.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI was being facetious.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoAh. You got me there haha.
- chei0aiV 11y agoIt essentially already has http://www.palemoon.org/ http://www.palemoon.org/ The Palemoon developers understand the folly of ditching the flexibility of the XUL interface. They won't be removing it.