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mmcgaha on Feb 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Future of Thunderbird

I have never used thunderbird but I am sure a lot changed when when xul went away.

notpushkin on Feb 10, 2023 [–]

XUL is still there. Even in Firefox, the UI is still powered by XUL – it's just not exposed to addons anymore: https://u.ale.sh/there-is-only-xul.png

efreak on Feb 12, 2023 | [–]

They were slowly working away on it until sometime last year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORqed8SW_7fPnPdjfz42RoGf... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446335 https://arewexblstill.com/

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