On: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes

[sametmax]

Firefox is probably still a legacy mix of XUL, cpp and migrating to rust. I'm pretty sure chrome is easier to adapt.

[feanaro → sametmax]

XUL was replaced quite some time ago.

[jccalhoun → feanaro]

>XBL stats update :

>* 28 bindings (9.33% of original bindings)

>* 10517 lines of code (21.02% of original LOCs)

https://twitter.com/mozxbl

[feanaro → jccalhoun]

Yes, apparently I was wrong. Thanks for the additional data.

[zaarn → feanaro]

There is still some XUL components/code floating around, it's being replaced and reduced with each release.

[feanaro → zaarn]

Hmm, TIL. I was under the impression this work was already completed.

[TazeTSchnitzel → feanaro]

XUL is not supported for extensions now, but has Firefox's UI really been fully rewritten in HTML yet?

[jraph → TazeTSchnitzel]

No. If you open the browser console and type `window`, you see:

    ChromeWindow chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Visiting this link is funny by the way.

Does this complicate having a standalone Gecko though? Surely browser authors could write their own UI and embed Gecko inside without touching XUL.