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Re:XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox by akamaka on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:26AM (#35407751)
Ironically, it was their own success that made the XUL stack die off. Mozilla’s work on making browsers better enabled developers to write ever more complex webapps, and we’ve never looked back.
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Re:XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox by Yoric on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:22AM (#35408366)
That was by design, actually.

A long time ago, Mozilla had a choice between making XUL an open standard or investing in HTML5 and decided very consciously to invest in HTML5, rather than fragmenting the web.

Source: I worked at Mozilla around that time.

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