Bug 506702

Summary: Support E4X, XBL, XPCOM, and XUL
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: Schimon Jehudah <sch>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: jurajoravec
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Schimon Jehudah 2025-07-07 03:56:32 UTC 
This might be more appropriate as a Qt library to handle E4X, XBL, XUL, XPCOM etc.

There are many XUL extensions with working core code, and, as with GTK+, XUL is an XML file to create graphical interface, and there are many possibilities for Falkon, including adding FireFTP, FireSSH, and more. Yet it would require porting to QML or Qt.

While I prefer Python, QML and Qt, adopting XUL would allow to cooperate with other projects such as Basilisk, Pale Moon, and other XUL projects, including communities, that are of good quality and do not compromise, such as of Moonchild Productions and Pale Moon.

Unified XUL Platform (UXP)
https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP

XUL controllers
https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/addon/ptxe/

The ability to render XUL interface from HTML view.
http://jabberzilla.jabberstudio.org/xul/mockups/

References:
https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml
https://devdoc.net/web/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL.html
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-06-10-the-campaign-for-html5-was-a-war-against-xml-and-interoperability.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-08-25-the-benefits-of-uxp-based-software.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-08-10-xmpp-for-xul.gmi
Comment 1 Schimon Jehudah 2025-07-07 04:00:11 UTC 
A discussion over Pale Moon Forums.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=32534
Comment 2 Juraj 2025-07-09 16:16:36 UTC 
Hello,

This is way too big of a task for Falkon.
The XUL repository does not contain Qt bindings, so this needs to be done first.
With Qt interfaces, it "could" be integrated into Falkon, which would still be a lot of work since XUL is complex.

Well, if you are willing to work on it, feel free to do so.
I recommend making the Qt interfaces first and than implementing those in Falkon.

Best regards,
Juraj
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Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2025-08-08 03:46:37 UTC 
🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.