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The beauty of Firefox is the openness of the XUL platform. It's an amazing idea to make it possible for anyone who can hack HTML/CSS and javascript to be able t
by sunkencity 17y ago
The beauty of Firefox is the openness of the XUL platform. It's an amazing idea to make it possible for anyone who can hack HTML/CSS and javascript to be able to tweak the browser, bootstrapping web viewer with web tech. The webkit browsers doesn't have this, but most users doesn't care, and they don't care about the level of data google gets from chrome either.
But yeah, this firefox instance I am running now is pretty laggy. Something needs to be done about that.
- nailer 17y agoHow many popular XUL apps are there really? Songbird? Flock? Are they really popular or game changing? The engineering effort for XUL slowed down Netscape 6 and Mozilla browser for years until it was of decent quality. No real apps have come out of it. In 2010. Apps belong inside the browser. Browsers don't belong in apps.
- sunkencity 17y agonot the apps, the firefox plugins. basically any web developer with enough perseverance can hack theorin own browser.
- gnosis 17y agoOpera uses the same open plugin interface as Firefox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-opera-plug-in-interface/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-opera-plug-in-interfa...