Thread: Java and/or Google-Mobile-Apps on Chinook?
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2007-10-24 , 16:45
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#18
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
Indeed, Java isn't used in Firefox or Thunderbird. Gecko is the HTML rendering engine used in both (as well as Microb) and it is not written in Java.
Just re-read a bunch of things. I was equating Gecko with Chrome (the UI part of things). Chrome DOES make heavy use of Java (you'll find lots of jar files in the chrome subdir of your thunderbird install, for example). But that doesn't mean that you'd have to implement Gecko with Chrome.