XULRunner
Sign in to saveXULRunner is a discontinued, packaged version of the Mozilla platform to enable standalone desktop application development using XUL, developed by Mozilla. It replaced the Gecko Runtime Environment, a stalled project with a similar purpose. The first stable developer preview of XULRunner was released in February 2006, based on the Mozilla 1.8 code base. Mozilla stopped supporting the development of XULrunner in July 2015.
Key facts
- Software.developer
- Mozilla Foundation and community
- Software.logo
- Deer park globe.svg
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.released
- February 2006
- Software.latest_release_version
- 41.0.2
- Software.programming language
- C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Runtime environment
- Software.license
- MPL
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XULRunner is a discontinued, packaged version of the Mozilla platform to enable standalone desktop application development using XUL, developed by Mozilla. It replaced the Gecko Runtime Environment, a stalled project with a similar purpose. The first stable developer preview of XULRunner was released in February 2006, based on the Mozilla 1.8 code base. Mozilla stopped supporting the development of XULrunner in July 2015.
XULRunner was a "technology experiment", not a shipped product, meaning there were no official XULRunner releases, only stable builds based on the same code as a corresponding Firefox release.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “XULRunner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.