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XULRunner is a runtime environment developed by the Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property...

to provide a common back-end for XUL

XUL

In computer programming, XUL , the XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project. XUL operates in Mozilla cross-platform applications such as Firefox...

-based applications. It replaced the Gecko Runtime Environment
Gecko (layout engine)
Gecko is a free and open source layout engine used in many applications developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation , as well as in many other open source software projects....

, a stalled project with a similar purpose.

The first stable developer preview of XULRunner was released in February 2006, based on the Mozilla 1.8 code base. the most recent stable build of XULRunner is XULRunner 7.0, built from the same source code snapshot as Firefox 7.

XULRunner is a "technology experiment", not a shipped product, meaning there are no "official" XULRunner releases, only stable builds based on the same code as a corresponding Firefox release.

Uses

All XUL-based applications like Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...

, Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...

, Songbird

Songbird (software)

Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."...

, Flickr

Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

Uploadr, SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code...

, Conkeror

Conkeror

Conkeror is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to be navigated primarily by a computer keyboard. Its design is mainly patterned after the text editor GNU Emacs, with some influence from other programs, including vi....

, Sunbird

Mozilla Sunbird

Mozilla Sunbird is a free and open source, cross-platform calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers...

, Miro

Democracy Player

Miro is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux...

, Joost

Joost

Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used peer-to-peer TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.Joost began development in 2006...

, and TomTom Home 2.0 run on XULRunner. Starting with version 3.0, Mozilla Firefox uses a "private" XULRunner, meaning the framework is installed locally in the application directory.

The fourth version of the computer game series Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens
Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens is an adventure game developed by Silver Style. It was released by RTL Enterprises on February 2007 for Microsoft Windows.-Plot:...

, uses XULrunner.

The eMusic

EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....

website has a download application called eMusic Remote that uses XULRunner.

The Google Adwords Editor uses XULRunner, as does the Evergreen ILS

Evergreen (software)

Evergreen is an open source Integrated Library System , initially developed by the for Public Information Network for Electronic Services , a statewide resource-sharing consortium with over 270 member libraries....

, a free and open-source library automation system.

In addition, the XULRunner package provides access to ActiveX

ActiveX

ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way. Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality....

Control functionality previously found in a (now defunct) third-party ActiveX Control built off the Mozilla source code. Applications using this application programming interface

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

(API) may function with XULRunner installed and registered.

Starting with Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...

version 8.5.1, IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

deployed XULRunner to provide Notes client support for XPages

XPages

XPages is a rapid web and mobile application development platform. It allows IBM Lotus Notes data to be displayed to browser clients on all platforms....

applications.

Malware using the name XULRunner

A Firefox extension called XULRunner 1.9.1 is a form of malware

Malware

Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming that is designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that otherwise exhibits abusive behavior...

masquerading as XULRunner that redirects Google search links to different websites.

In a sample analysed on 3 August 2011, it was inserting an iframe into searches using the domain:

http://.paulwebber.net/ffeed.php?n=

, it points at the IP 95.211.100.72 at leaseweb.

On a user's Windows computer, the malware is stored in an unusual location in the Local AppData folder, rather than in the usual Firefox profile or program directories.

External links

XULRunner wiki site
XULRunner Documentation
XULRunner Hall of Fame
XULRunner: What we are doing (Mozilla plans for the 1.9 timeframe)
XULRunner source code
Brian King 2005 Media
Brian King 2005 Presentations Slides

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Uses

Malware using the name XULRunner

See also

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