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Running Firefox & Thunderbird through a webserver?

There is KASM VNC, which easily allows to run whole Desktops or single Applications through your Web browser.

I think they use NoVNC or something. There is support for single Wayland applications, but I dont know currently how good it is and its a bit bloated for this specific use case.

Idea: Firefox and Thunderbird use Web Technology to display, dont they? The Browser is completely configurable with CSS. If there is something missing please add.

So you wouldnt need a traditional system and an X server / wayland compositor, but your browser could handle the compositing?

You would then need additional stuff

  • shared storage for downloads
  • redirecting local downloads to your browser, like KASM does it
  • login interface to access the "website"
  • some form of multi-user access, not sure if this is supported at all.

Why? Office 365 has this with Outlook, and Outlook is nowadays a Webapp afaik, just running locally.

It is useful to access

  • a secure browser
  • a configured mail app with many accounts, good interface, calendar, contacts, PGP, etc.
  • you can use thunderbird from Tablets
  • You can have an isolated Browser

This may be duplicating KASMs effords, but I think it may be really cool and better for these two apps, IF they actually use Web technology only.

TCB13 ,
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I believe your best bet is to setup linux on some computer / server / VM and access the thing remotely from a browser. That can be gone with solutions such as Guacamole (…manual setup…) OR linuxserver/webtop that is an abstraction over Guacamole to make it more easier to setup. With that running you can access the remote machine from any browser and use those applications.

Ephera ,

They actually don’t just use web technologies. They’re in the long-running process of porting everything to web technologies, but they still have components which use Mozilla’s XUL/XPCOM UI framework. It’s from a time when HTML wasn’t yet capable of rendering entire applications, so it actually looks a lot like HTML and can be styled with CSS, but it is not HTML+CSS+JS.

Pantherina OP ,

Thanks! Yes thought of XUL but didnt remember the name. It inherits lots of style from GTK but is not GTK. Actually I really like the Firefox toolkit, it is so damn beatiful.

I hate using Chromium, its just worse.

I will switch from Fedora Kinoite to Kinoite-hardened-laptop from Secureblue, which removes Firefox, but I am currently writing a small script to make the transition to using the standalone Tar archive easier.

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