Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? Greets, Tobias. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
On 7/8/2014 2:51 PM, Tobias Besemer wrote: As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? No. --BDS ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
On 7/8/2014 1:51 PM, Tobias Besemer wrote: As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? That chance is basically 0, even if you assume to be using FF and TB on the same version (say betas of both). The absolute minimum requirement would be being able to share the same libxul, which both Firefox developers and Thunderbird developers have had very little inclination to work towards making possible. -- Joshua Cranmer Thunderbird and DXR developer Source code archæologist ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
OK, I understand. The question was not just because of FF TB to save just some bits ... ... it was also, because I think it will be in the future a good idea to let run Firefox OS Apps on other OSes like it is possible with MS Modern UI and WinRT ... also would there be a possibility for an alternative GUI like MS Modern UI e.g. for ReactOS ... I see some files that should be possible to share e.g in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Mozilla\ ... crashreporter.exe crashreporter.ini maintenanceservice.exe maintenanceservice_installer.exe plugin-container.exe plugin-hang-ui.exe updater.exe updater.ini And I'm sure there should exist some more ... Greets, Tobias. Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014 21:25:24 UTC+2 schrieb Joshua Cranmer : On 7/8/2014 1:51 PM, Tobias Besemer wrote: As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? That chance is basically 0, even if you assume to be using FF and TB on the same version (say betas of both). The absolute minimum requirement would be being able to share the same libxul, which both Firefox developers and Thunderbird developers have had very little inclination to work towards making possible. -- Joshua Cranmer Thunderbird and DXR developer Source code archæologist ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
Regarding the other files there would need to be a versioning scheme implemented so applications would be able to figure out which one is compatible. Since any of these applications can be installed stand alone each one would need to be available during install and update unless we expended resources on providing multiple updates (one with and one without) for each application as well as additional code to handle versioning during update and install. Over all the complexity and extra work is not something that is likely to be implemented. - Original Message - From: Tobias B. Besemer tobias.bese...@googlemail.com To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 12:59:29 PM Subject: Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner OK, I understand. The question was not just because of FF TB to save just some bits ... ... it was also, because I think it will be in the future a good idea to let run Firefox OS Apps on other OSes like it is possible with MS Modern UI and WinRT ... also would there be a possibility for an alternative GUI like MS Modern UI e.g. for ReactOS ... I see some files that should be possible to share e.g in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Mozilla\ ... crashreporter.exe crashreporter.ini maintenanceservice.exe maintenanceservice_installer.exe plugin-container.exe plugin-hang-ui.exe updater.exe updater.ini And I'm sure there should exist some more ... Greets, Tobias. Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014 21:25:24 UTC+2 schrieb Joshua Cranmer : On 7/8/2014 1:51 PM, Tobias Besemer wrote: As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? That chance is basically 0, even if you assume to be using FF and TB on the same version (say betas of both). The absolute minimum requirement would be being able to share the same libxul, which both Firefox developers and Thunderbird developers have had very little inclination to work towards making possible. -- Joshua Cranmer Thunderbird and DXR developer Source code archæologist ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Firefox/Thunderbird and GRE/XRE/XULRunner
What's about the idea (for the future) that all stable versions use XULRunner and beta, alpha nightly use there own XUL ??? I think that in the stable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird Firefox OS are the Gecko all the same ... ??? This would allow a GUI and running Firfox OS Apps on different platforms (like Windows, Linux, BSD) based on the stable Gecko that is also shipped with the newest Firefox OS ... (Just as an idea for the future ...) Greets, Tobias. Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014 20:51:57 UTC+2 schrieb Tobias Besemer: As far as I can remember, at the beginning when GRE was build, there was the try that Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla-Suite will use this ... After Thunderbird is now back, a Mozilla Update Service exist and the Crash Reporter needs to be re-done, but keeps a standalone App for startup problems of Firefox/Thunderbird ... Is there a chance, that Firefox Thunderbird will share files (runtime environment / framework) together again on Windows ??? Greets, Tobias. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
