XULRunner

XULRunner
Developer(s)Mozilla Foundation and community
Initial releaseFebruary 2006
Final release
41.0.2 / October 15, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-10-15)
Written inC++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeRuntime environment
LicenseMPL
Websitedeveloper.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner

XULRunner is a discontinued,[1][2] 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.[3] 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.[1][2]

XULRunner was a "technology experiment", not a shipped product,[4] meaning there were no official XULRunner releases, only stable builds based on the same code as a corresponding Firefox release.

  1. ^ a b Deprecation Notice
  2. ^ a b XULRunner future and ownership: Announcement to XULRunner dev group
  3. ^ "GRE — Mozilla Developer Center". Developer.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  4. ^ Benjamin Smedberg. "Re: lifecycle policy for XULRunner apps?". Newsgroup: mozilla.dev.planning. Usenet: [email protected].