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		supriyo-biswas 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps Personally, I feel Mozilla did not market XUL[1] enough. Had they done that, it could have become what Electron is today, with a native look and feel, and with a much reduced footprint while still offering a JS-based runtime for applications. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

dralley 5 months ago | [–]

90% of what XUL accomplished was rendered moot and obsolete by HTML5. The remaining 10% isn't worth it.

coffeeling 5 months ago | [–]

I remember using Songbird. It was nice.

0x073 5 months ago | [–]

Or chatzilla.

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