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jeffbee 6 days ago

Any fans of the old "Songbird" browser with the tag line "Play the web"?

pndy 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh I remember that - the times that Mozilla and Firefox spawned some interesting stuff. There was Sunbird - standalone XUL calendar app before it was reincorporated into Lightning and ended up as part of Thunderbird. Flock browser that embraced Web 2.0 and allowed to connect to various services. Mozilla Prism for web applications - kinda like Electron/CEF. Firefox OS (Boot2Gecko) for phones, tvs and tablets (I'm still using its ringtones on iPhone). Mozilla Persona - similar to OpenID but never got that much attention (my ISP even for a while tried to be an OpenID provider). Mozilla Raindrop that tried to accumulate various messaging services within the browser with CouchDB and own interface. And Instantbird - multi-network messenger that used XUL and libpurple. Joost - P2P internet tv application which was awfully sluggish, couldn't keep connections up to various "channels" but I enjoyed watching cartoons from 20s and 30s when these could load.

> There is no data, there is only XUL

alex_duf 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember discovering Bonobo (the British producer) because one of the devs of songbird recorded a video that showcased the features looking at a site that played Bonobo.

15 to 20 years later and I've seen him live 5 times

dendrite9 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes! A friend and I were just talking about running through blogs and downloading songs in Songbird.

rzzzt 6 days ago | parent [-]

The Hype Machine is still up after all these years (I think it was one of the example bookmarks). But now the player is embedded into the website itself: https://hypem.com/popular