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For many application developers, putting Mozilla technology inside or underneath their applications has been a bittersweet experience. While they are rightly excited to have the power of the Mozilla platform at their disposal, the state of our embedding interfaces and application-launch facilities have created significant impediments to their productivity, and introduced expensive fragility into their environments. While we wish to see the plight of these developers improve, we do not believe that the "second-class" nature of 3rd party applications can be entirely wiped from our world.
Instead, we will seek to make our own applications use the same interfaces that we recommend for embedders, in both in C++ Gecko interaction and the XUL widgetry that is composed above it. For launching applications atop our platform, we will improve and promote XULRunner, and use it to launch Firefox and our other applications. Over time, we seek to drive the number of "embedding bugs", as distinct from "bugs that break our apps", to near-zero by improving alignment and overlap between those domains.
=== XULRunner ===
