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by blizdiddy 444 days ago
Mozilla were ruined by big Google checks. How they could let this opportunity slip while electron became the ui for every major desktop app… such a shame.
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Personally, I feel Mozilla did not market XUL[1] enough. Had they done that, it could have become what Electron is today, with a native look and feel, and with a much reduced footprint while still offering a JS-based runtime for applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

90% of what XUL accomplished was rendered moot and obsolete by HTML5. The remaining 10% isn't worth it.
I remember using Songbird. It was nice.
Or chatzilla.
They had support for PWA in 2021, before they pulled it. Hard to see this is anything other than a concession to its biggest funder, Google. Chrome, Edge and Safari all support installing PWAs, while FF, the biggest beneficiary of such a change, intentionally gimped theirs.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...