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Firefox is probably still a legacy mix of XUL, cpp and migrating to rust. I'm pretty sure chrome is easier to adapt.

• feanaro 7y ago
  XUL was replaced quite some time ago.
  • zaarn 7y ago
    There is still some XUL components/code floating around, it's being replaced and reduced with each release.
    • feanaro 7y ago
      Hmm, TIL. I was under the impression this work was already completed.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
    XUL is not supported for extensions now, but has Firefox's UI really been fully rewritten in HTML yet?
    • jraph 7y ago
      No. If you open the browser console and type `window`, you see: ChromeWindow chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Visiting this link is funny by the way. Does this complicate having a standalone Gecko though? Surely browser authors could write their own UI and embed Gecko inside without touching XUL.
  • jccalhoun 7y ago
    >XBL stats update : >* 28 bindings (9.33% of original bindings) >* 10517 lines of code (21.02% of original LOCs) https://twitter.com/mozxbl https://twitter.com/mozxbl
    • feanaro 7y ago
      Yes, apparently I was wrong. Thanks for the additional data.