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I thought XUL was gone with the recent change to the way addons work in Firefox?
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
I thought XUL was gone with the recent change to the way addons work in Firefox?
- lowflyer 7y agoXUL was used all over the place, so it takes a while to fully remove it. Thunderbird updates the underlying platform only once per year, catching up with Firefox changes in the yearly major release, while Firefox does so every few weeks.
- jcranmer 7y agoThat's not quite accurate. Thunderbird develops its software with the tip-of-trunk Firefox code at all times. It only makes releases much less frequently than Firefox.
- thenewnewguy 7y agoXUL is no longer exposed to plugins (in non-ESR FF), but is still used internally in some places - where it is slowly being replaced.
- adrianmalacoda 7y agoIt was XBL (XML Binding Language)[0] that was removed, not XUL - which is being phased out and replaced with HTML where appropriate. 0: https://briangrinstead.com/blog/xbl-in-firefox/ https://briangrinstead.com/blog/xbl-in-firefox/