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Re:My Quest for a New Browser by spolu on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:10PM (#6369674)
Indeed. Main difference is the API we expose to JS. XUL use is really UI oriented. Here we want to control the entire browser through JS.
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Re:My Quest for a New Browser by nephyrin on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:31PM (#6370586)
Gecko exposes a large number of its interfaces to JS, and the entire Firefox frontend is written as such: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/c...
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Re:My Quest for a New Browser by spolu on Thursday September 12, 2013 @03:07AM (#6372514)
Do you have access to cookies, localStorage from JS?
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Re:My Quest for a New Browser by lucian1900 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:32AM (#6373587)
Yes. Any XPCOM object is usable from JS that runs inside Firefox chrome and most things are XPCOM objects.
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