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for some reason I thought XUL was dead and gone, with the UI now coded in html and js - wonder if they can further improve loading by removing XUL in the futre

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Exactly my first thought. For the last few years Mozilla has been beating the "XUL is dead" drum. What's up with this?

It is dead, just slow to rewrite everything.

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