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This is based on the Chromium Embedded Framework. I've always been surprised this kind of framework was not encouraged for Firefox by Mozilla (I've read they were even against it).

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Before they got rid of XUL, this was the sort of thing possible with it.

Exactly, this sort of thing was the whole idea of XUL.

It was a little too flexible to make secure and fast though.

They used to have XULRunner long ago.

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