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
make a XUL extension standlalone with XULrunner
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Re: make a XUL extension standlalone with XULrunner
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:
(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.])
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.
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