Tag Archives: xulrunner

Ten Years

By Ian McKellar | March 31, 2008

Ten years ago Netscape released the source code to their browser. They called it Mozilla, I downloaded and built it at my work at the time. I didn’t manage to build it immediately, but I worked it out in the end.
Somehow I’ve spent most of the past seven years working with the platform. I touched [...]

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I told you so

By Ian McKellar | March 24, 2008

Six months ago I predicted:
This kind of bundling is often done by the bad guys. If you install Apple’s Quicktime codecs on Windows every update will trigger an iTunes install, even if you haven’t installed iTunes. I’m sure they’ll do the same thing for Safari on Windows. I’m not sure what iTunes’ market share on [...]

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What about Thunderbird?

By Ian McKellar | May 14, 2007

In all this talk about the future of XULRunner and Mozilla and Firefox nobody has mentioned Thunderbird. Can we just assume that Thunderbird is dead too?

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