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Roll Your Own Browser

Posted by timothy on from the picture-your-own-throbber dept.

davidwboswell writes "Oreillynet is running an article about how to create your own browser with Mozilla. This is a follow-up to a previous article that surveyed many of the alternate Mozilla browsers currently available including Chimera, Galeon, Phoenix and Aphrodite."

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  1. Re:mozilla.exe as explorer.exe by aao-brad · · Score: 4, Informative
    Have you checked out the alternative shell scene? You can find cool alternatives for explorer all over. A mozilla-based shell would be interesting, though.

    Check out Desktopian for more info.

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    "What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?" - Weird Al Yankovic
  2. Free online book by slothdog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also related is that O'Reilly has released "Creating Applications With Mozilla" under the OPL, and can be found in its entirety here: http://books.mozdev.org/

    (Apologies if this has been mentioned before; I did a quick search and didn't see it.)

  3. How is this different from IE? by NineNine · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've done this several times with IE. All you gotta do is drop the COM object into a VB project. You can literally have your "own" browser in about 30 seconds. How's this any different? If anything, making your own browser with IE seems a hell of a lot easier than using Mozilla. In VB, you can do the whole thing visually, and add code behind the objects and events.

    1. Re:How is this different from IE? by slug359 · · Score: 5, Informative
      Actually exactly the same is true for the Gecko engine, there is a COM object for it, you drop it into your VB/Delphi project and use it in 30 seconds.

      It also uses _exactly_ the same properties, methods and events, so you just change the name of the gecko control to the name of your IE control, and it works, I've done it.