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But what is it

A bit more down to earth explanation for people who know nothing about computers would be good. What *is* it? An OS? A program? etc IceHunter 17:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's program which enables certain other kinds ("XUL-based") of programs to run. Kind of like JRE or .NET framework in that respect. --asqueella 22:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Memory Issues (as of late 2009)

There seems to be a recurring theme / pattern of memory leaks and the like with programs based on XULRunner, including Firefox and the Songbird music app. ActiveState Komodo Edit seems to crash for no reason as well. It would seem there should be a section discussing this aspect of XULRunner within the article. Biturica (talk) 04:05, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox 3?

Guys, is Firefox 3 going to be using XULRunner or not? I heard someone on OSNews say that plans to use it were going to be held over until Firefox 4 but I have not heard anyone else comment on this. I haven't been following Firefox progress very closely over the last year or so. 210.50.56.34 (talk) 10:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The version on Gentoo has a USE flag for xulrunner, so that is an option if you compile from source. --D235j (talk) 16:52, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The current version of Firefox 3 runs on top of XULRunner - so yes. --Gedrean (talk) 15:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox 3 from mozilla.com uses private copy of XULRunner, and only some Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora) have separate package for XULRunner shared by other packages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.178.67.135 (talk) 07:49, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Xulrunner deprecated?

According to the Gentoo bug 403415 xulrunner seems to be deprecated and got removed from the portage tree. Coukd someone with a better background knowledge add some comment on the article page? --79.232.39.156 (talk) 14:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently Debian have dropped it too. Not sure if it's security bugs or most packages not using it anymore (Kiwix seems to, tho). There should definitely be a section on this; does anyone have a good source on the reasons why XULrunner is falling out of use? HLHJ (talk) 12:19, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

XULRunner removed in Firefox 31 / dead?

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~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:49, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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