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		recursive on Dec 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML > I've often wondered why OS's just don't host browser render engines internally and draw their UI with that. I believe Windows 8 can do this.

barkingcat on Dec 10, 2014 [–]

Didn't Windows use to do this until they got dinged by the anti-trust suit? MSFT had to spend a lot of engineering time decoupling IE from being a critical component in rendering basic file explorer views

Elv13 on Dec 11, 2014 | [–]

And the "active" Windows desktop itself (as part of explorer.exe) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

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