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Comment by pdenton | Hacker News Reader

    > Mozilla need to [...] build a new browser

See The Book of Mozilla, chapter 11.

    >and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own

XULRunner was essentially this.

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XULRunner was mostly like Electron before Electron.

And it could have take succeeded before Electron arrived if Mozilla didn't decide to let the project die.

The problem is that XUL just didn't work very well. It was one of the reasons Apple decided to go with forking KHTML for the basis of webkit, and Google decided to with forking webkit for the basis of Chromium.

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