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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Feb 2006 12:01 UTC, submitted by Christopher Cook

"uBrowser is a simple web browser that illustrates one way of embedding the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine into a standalone application using LibXUL. In this case, the contents of the page is grabbed as it's being rendered and displayed as a texture on some geometry using OpenGL. You are able to interact with the page (mostly) normally and visit (almost) any site that works correctly with Firefox 1.5."

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Very Cool

by richmoore on Fri 24th Feb 2006 13:21 UTC

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2005-08-06

This is absolutely useless, but very cool. A pity that it doesn't support proxies at all though - it means I can only see our intranet with it here.

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RE: Very Cool

by locohijo on Sat 25th Feb 2006 00:04 in reply to "Very Cool"

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2006-01-03

This is absolutely useless

For now, yes, but it could spawn a lot of other UI design and functionality in a browser. Like say for example, an expose like functionality (a la FF Reveal extension) , a cube (a la compiz cube plugin) functionality and a lot more.

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RE: Very Cool

by cerbie on Sat 25th Feb 2006 09:19 in reply to "Very Cool"

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2006-01-02

It may be useless, but that's a UI issue, not a technical one. Allowing one more graphical thing to be offloaded to the video card is a good thing.

Now, someone with actual vision on how it could be used needs to come along, see it, and go, "ah, ha!", figuring out how it can actually help.

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