make a XUL extension standlalone with XULrunner

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dapgo
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make a XUL extension standlalone with XULrunner

Post by dapgo »

There certain legacy addons, that I missed on Firefox.
And converting to webextension is not in the roadmap of anyone

But I think that Reminderfox or Fireftp (and there are more) with XUL runner probably can run as "standalone" apps.

What do you think? any experience with xulrunner?
I remember seeing long time ago a diagram app based in XUL and xulrunner
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therube
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Re: make a XUL extension standlalone with XULrunner

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I run ChatZilla using XULrunner.
ChatZilla on XULRunner


Note that running "standalone" does not mean that you are running a (relatively) small extension "alone".
It means that you are running it outside of your "normal" browser.


With cZ, I use a old version of it, along with an old version of FF (3.0, [yes 3, not 30]) as its' backend.
(I could have use some other "modern" browser [at the time] as its backend, but considering 3.0 is small, & uses very little resources & works - why.)

cZ, is 1.5 MB. FF 3.0 (installed separately) is 25 MB.

cZ.bat:

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C:\Firefox30\firefox.exe  -app  "C:\ChatZilla on XULRunner\application.ini"  -no-remote  -safe-mode

(As it is, cZ is "always open" - regardless of anything else I may have open.
[In that regard, FF 3.0 is also always open, "running", but has no "window", if you will, as its' "window" is cZ.])
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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