I've been reading the thread on the German side of the forum:
http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5098.0
I've been wanting to ask about xulrunner since I noticed that it wasn't present on my openSUSE installs, and also noticed that the versions haven't been updating when installing iceweasel from experimental in siduction.
Since xulrunner isn't a dependency for iceweasel anymore, is it safe to remove it? Does anyone know of a reason why it shouldn't be removed?
As iceweasel is (as its changelog states) not a xulrunner application and neither ubuntu nor suse have it, I removed xulrunner completely from siduction some days ago and have absolutely no issues with iceweasel and icedove. *Works for me* :)
As said in the german post, and google/mozilla explains even more
Actually, it hasn't *really been needed* since firefox 4, ubuntu got rid of it in 2011 (Fri May 20), back then a interesting page to watch was another ubuntu thingie called - desktop-o-mozilla-rapid-release-maintenance blueprint just for changes etc.
I run firefox 36 (nightly) and can't remember the last time it was installed or needed
piper@x1:~$ apt-cache policy xulrunner*
xulrunner-12.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-17.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-8.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-21.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-26.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-11.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-16.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-2.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-7.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-20.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-25.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-1.9.1:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-1.9.2:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-10.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-15.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-1.9:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-6.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-dev:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-24.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-19.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-5.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-23.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-27:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-28:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-29:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-30:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-13.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-18.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-9.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
xulrunner-22.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
Having removed earlier versions, I only had xulrunner-29 left, so, removed that also. Thanks for the comments/advice.