So it seems. I don't know much about the internals of these applications, but it seems that firefox is a dependency to get gecko for rendering. Hopefully these apps will be built against xulrunner someday if possible.
My concerns were just about tight coupling with a single browser and desktop software. -- depend on generic browser instead of firefox https://launchpad.net/bugs/77539 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs