MobiDVD - free XUL-based DVD/VCD/CD ripper for mobile devices
MobiDVD is the world’s first easy-to-use, all-in-one DVD/VCD/CD ripper & converter software built on XUL, which rips and converts the audio/video content from a disc to the playable format of portable video devices such as iPod, MP4, PSP, iPhone, Apple TV, 3GP Cell Phones, Zune, Archos, all MP3 player with high quality and fast speed. MobiDVD supports almost all popular video and audio formats including AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, MPEG, WMV, 3GP and etc. It also allows user to split audio/video content into clips by specifying duration or file size. Read the rest of this entry »
Robin Desktop - Web Based Desktop
Remote Operating System built with DHTML, Javascript, XUL and some crazy hacks.
Komodo Edit - multi-language source code editor
Komodo Edit is a free multi-platform, multi-language editor for dynamic languages and Ajax technologies.
Komodo Edit has support (including auto-complete for most) for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django out f the box. The auto-complete works much better out of the box for PHP here than in many of the other options.
MAB - Mozilla Amazon Browser
Mab is a Rich Web Application to search products on all 6 Amazon-branded sites (com, ca, co.uk, fr, co.jp), showing results in a handy interface, typical of desktop programs. MAB lets you search within one window without distracting you with plenty of images and texts not concerning what you are effectively looking for. MAB can make you feel like the world’s most powerful bookstore clerk!
If you are using Mozilla or Firefox browser you can try it now using the remote version, that doesn’t require any kind of installation.
Using Firefox 3 as a XUL runtime environment
XUL is an XML-based interface design language that is extensively used within the Mozilla ecosystem, particularly for the user interfaces of Firefox and Thunderbird. XUL can seamlessly mix with XHTML and SVG content and can be manipulated through the DOM API with Javascript, so it offers a web-inspired approach to cross-platform desktop application development.
How to create Firefox extensions
Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don’t need to be a master of either. When I started, I knew nothing about either one, really. I had seen some bookmarklets here and there, and tried to figure out just how they worked. Well, that’s how I made my first extension, BugMeNot.
XULRunner - the engine of XUL applications
XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications. XULRunner will also provide libxul, a solution which allows the embedding of Mozilla technologies in other projects and products.
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