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XULRunner was a great piece of tech! > (It's the platform that Firefox was initially built on, I don't know how much of it is still there now) Looks like it w

XULRunner was a great piece of tech! > (It's the platform that Firefox was initially built on, I don't know how much of it is still there now) Looks like it was completely removed in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221724 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221724 Although I suppose some form of it is used in Firefox now (although I imagine XUL will get removed some time after XBL has been replaced with WebComponents).

tomc1985 9y ago
I wonder what kind of effort would be required to port it to node/V8? IIRC XULRunner's main handicap was relying on Moz's older-gen JS engine
- dom96 9y ago
  I would personally be interested in using XULRunner's innards to create a dependency-less cross-platform GUI framework (as a C library ala libui). Does anyone know how easy that would be and where I should start looking?
  - tomc1985 9y ago
    I don't have any answers for you, but it's worth noting that Moz worked around the JS speed limitations with bespoke C++ via XPCOM.
  - johnny22 9y ago
    why XULRunner instead of Graphene (i think it's called that)?