Does sugar web browser support extensions?

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:43 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
> what was the reason not to support firefox addons again?

Well, it's not really a decision, but more of a side-effect.  The best
and most flexible embedding technology to use is pyxpcom.  We're
embedding a Gecko engine into a different app, and this is of course not
firefox.  We are not using XUL as the UI toolkit, which is likely what
most firefox addons require.

It's sort of like Epiphany.  You can't put firefox addons into epiphany
because epiphany is actually native and doesn't use XUL.

We are shipping xulrunner though, so it's conceivable that whenever a
xulrunner-based FF comes out it'll just run with the xulrunner we've
got, but be completely unsugared.

Dan

> firefox runs smoothly on my B4... and it's pretty great to have access
> to Google Gears, for instance.
> 
> SJ
> 
> On 8/14/07, Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn at rpi.edu> wrote:
> > If you mean normal Firefox add-ons. It does not. We use a simpler
> > core called XULRunner. It does support extensions of a sort using
> > PyXPCom, though I don't (yet) know much about those.
> >
> > --Noah
> >
> > On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Kleber Infante wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I saw in a post that Sugar web browser does not support extensions.
> > > Is that true?
> > > If it´s true, what can be done?
> > >
> > > I would like to know how to install an extension in XO browser. I
> > > wanna try to port an Firefox extension to sugar browser.
> > >
> > > thanks
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