Using firefox inplace of XULRUNNER for running XUL application

[mayank goel-2]

Hi All,

I am working on a Xul application. It is basically a web application
running inside xul browser in xulrunner(or using it as a browser). The
reason for using Xulrunner is I want my application to run in a
seperate process and better control.

Is it possible to use firefox as XULRUNNER, where I can write a XUL
file to make a browser and run it on the existing firefox (using it as
gecko and javascript engine), then I can run my application in the new
xul browser.
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[Benjamin Smedberg]

On 8/24/09 7:16 AM, Mayank wrote:

> Is it possible to use firefox as XULRUNNER, where I can write a XUL
> file to make a browser and run it on the existing firefox (using it as
> gecko and javascript engine), then I can run my application in the new
> xul browser.

Yes, you can use firefox -app to launch a XULRunner application. Note that
the Firefox components will still be present and may cause some behavior
differences, but this normally doesn't matter in practice.

--BDS
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[mayank goel-2]

On Aug 25, 2:50 am, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@...> wrote:

> On 8/24/09 7:16 AM, Mayank wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to use firefox as XULRUNNER, where I can write a XUL
> > file to make a browser and run it on the existing firefox (using it as
> > gecko and javascript engine), then I can run my application in the new
> > xul browser.
>
> Yes, you can use firefox -app to launch a XULRunner application. Note that
> the Firefox components will still be present and may cause some behavior
> differences, but this normally doesn't matter in practice.
>
> --BDS

Thanks Mr. Smedberg,
It worked...
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On Aug 25, 2:50 am, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@...> wrote:

> On 8/24/09 7:16 AM, Mayank wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to use firefox as XULRUNNER, where I can write a XUL
> > file to make a browser and run it on the existing firefox (using it as
> > gecko and javascript engine), then I can run my application in the new
> > xul browser.
>
> Yes, you can use firefox -app to launch a XULRunner application. Note that
> the Firefox components will still be present and may cause some behavior
> differences, but this normally doesn't matter in practice.
>
> --BDS

Also, can I make xulrunner application load firefox extensions?
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[Mark Finkle]

> > Yes, you can use firefox -app to launch a XULRunner application. Note that
> > the Firefox components will still be present and may cause some behavior
> > differences, but this normally doesn't matter in practice.
>
> Also, can I make xulrunner application load firefox extensions?

Not really. Your XULRunner application ha a different application ID
and a different UI. Firefox extensions are designed to register with
Firefox and the chrome overlays are designed to work with the Firefox
XUL UI.

You would need to port Firefox extensions to work in your XUL
application. This can be easy or hard, depending on the extension.
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