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me: Hmm, Zotero is apparently written in JS, but it doesn't seem to be Electron. I wonder what runtime it uses 🤔
"Zotero is built on Firefox"
I'm sorry, it what
@joepie91 so it's like thunderbird?
@arianvp https://ublog.byme.at/objects/9a451291-7de4-45b8-8531-1d58b8755f1f provides some uh, clarification, as to what's going on
@joepie91 Look like they are hacking what's left of XulRunner out of Firefox.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
@joepie91 It started life as a Firefox-exclusive extension before Chrome even existed, IIRC.
@xgranade Oh yeah, I actually knew it was built on XUL previously! I'm just baffled that someone actually used the hypothetical migration path for XUL deprecation of "you can always fork Firefox I guess". I didn't think anyone would actually *do* that
@joepie91 wild