Firefox-on-XULRunner
The Firefox-on-XULRunner build system is basically in place now: it can produce working builds on Windows and Linux with a couple special configure flags. I even have a set of changes that allow it to...
View ArticleWebRunner Demos
At XTech, I demonstrated a prototype “webrunner” build on XULRunner. It’s messy code, because we don’t (yet) have a builtin way for a web application to say “this link is an external link that should...
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XULRunner at OSCON
I’ll be giving a talk on XULRunner at the upcoming O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) on Thursday, July 27 from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. The talk will include a demonstration of XULRunner‘s ability to...
View ArticleXULRunner Updates
I’ve been busy, but I’ve got some good XULRunner announcements: XULRunner 1.8.0.4 Released. Get it while it’s hot, it’s a security/stability update of the developer preview. With the XULRunner...
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Deploying the Airbag
Have you ever crashed Firefox? We’re trying to make that as rare as possible, and we have a new tool under development to make that possible. Google and Mozilla are working in cooperation to replace...
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FSOSS: Don’t Miss It!
Each year Seneca college (Toronto) hosts FSOSS: the free software & open source symposium. There will be quite a few Mozillians at this year’s conference: Neil Deakin and I are both giving...
View ArticleXULRunner: What we are doing
In June 2003, Mozilla version 1.4 was released. For the first time, the Windows installers of Mozilla installed two separate pieces: the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE) was installed into a shared...
View ArticleWhat made the web great can make the client great, too.
If you listen carefully to the Web 2.0 crowd, you will hear a disturbing undercurrent. They don’t just believe that the web is great. They believe that client applications are dinosaurs, dying relics...
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