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Can anyone from/formerly of Mozilla explain why XUL had to die? When I was a kid it seemed utterly fascinating, I wonder now if we'd ever needed Electron if there was a modern XULRunner

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I believe this is the best account: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...

Thank you

> Waterfox Classic is continuing to support the long-standing XUL and XPCOM add-on capability that Firefox removed in version 57.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox

How well do they support it? Do they fix security bugs in the parts that are now effectively abandoned by upstream?

I see they port fixes from Firefox, but I doubt they patch the abandoned parts.

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