Re: XULRunner future and ownership

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 7:14:22 PM UTC-5, Myk Melez wrote:
> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > 2015 July 31 at 06:02
> > Firefox works fine from an application perspective; I've even taken 
> > the old xulrunner stub, removed the Firefox executable and been able 
> > to use a standard Firefox install as XUL Runner.
> >
> > So as long as that continues to work, there's no need to the full 
> > xulrunner. (And I think it will because that's how the web app runtime 
> > works.)
> I wouldn't assume this, given that the web runtime was deprioritized by 
> the organization three years ago.

So glad something like this was publicized.

> SlimerJS <http://slimerjs.org/> also depends on being able to use a 
> Firefox installation in this way. And presumably there are others. So 
> it's worth clarifying whether Benjamin's proposal to remove the 
> XULRunner code from the repository would affect these use cases.

I don't think Mozilla cares about the platform anymore, so I doubt it.

It's all about the web.