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What does Firefox add to XULRunner?

Firefox - XULRunner = What?

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Another way of putting this question is, what does the 'firefox app' consist of (besides the XULRunner portion of code)?

Solution

  • This is the answer I got from firefox mailing list.

    You're missing the entire browser frontend. Firefox is everything in the browser/ directory of the source tree

    http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/

    including the following:

    • The UI of the main browser window.
    • UI of the preferences window
    • Feed handling UI
    • Data migration for new users
    • UI for the bookmarks/history data
    • Session restore
    • Shell integration

    There's a lot that goes into Firefox beyond the web platform that XULRunner provides!

    --BDS