On Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 7:34:54 PM UTC-5, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let's face it: xulrunner is hardly maintained, we barely build and test
> it on automation, and the result is that it is often broken for long
> periods of time.
> 
> I propose that we just stop pretending, and terminate xulrunner,
> considering the following:
> - Xulrunner is lagging behind Firefox: DLL block list, startup telemetry,
>   etc.
> - Since bug 755724, running firefox -app application.ini is 99% the same
>   as running xulrunner application.ini, except for a few details that
>   should be considered bugs. Before that bug, it was quite different,
>   as browser-specific files were available to the xul application.
> - There is no reason we can't generate the sdk from firefox instead of
>   xulrunner. Moreover that would make firefox-specific interfaces
>   available in the sdk that aren't currently (which may or may not be a
>   good thing, arguably)
> - We could include the xulrunner and xulrunner-stub executables as part
>   of firefox. xulrunner-stub is small and self-contained, and xulrunner
>   could be replaced by something that calls firefox -app. Or we could
>   make the firefox executable check under what name it's called and act
>   accordingly.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Mike
My Firefox Thunderbird will not open correctly because it wants XUL Runner to 
be 45.5.0.  Can you help me?  edunlap

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