Scott Williams 🐧 on Nostr: Before #electron, there were many apps built upon #Firefox's engine via xulrunner. ...
Before #electron, there were many apps built upon #Firefox's engine via xulrunner. It's very unfortunate that #Mozilla ceded this space and allowed Chrome-based apps to fill in the gap. Regardless of your opinion about browser based apps, it's unfortunate that they're such a platform monopoly now.
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