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Convert XUL to ICB

Convert XUL to ICB online for free with no sign up, with quality-focused workflow guidance.

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XUL at a glance

XUL

XUL emerged in the early Mozilla era and powered Firefox's interface and add-on ecosystem for years before Firefox Quantum and the WebExtensions shift made most mainstream XUL workflows legacy.

ICB at a glance

ICB

The Truevision line grew out of EPICenter-era PC graphics boards, and several board names ended up surviving as filename extensions even when the underlying raster structure stayed close to the wider TGA family.

Format comparison

Feature
XUL
ICB
File type

Document

Image

Extensions
  • .xul

  • .icb

MIME type
  • application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml

  • image/x-icb

Compression / quality

depends

depends

File size characteristics

medium

medium

Compatibility

broad

broad

Editability

moderate

moderate

Created year

1999

1991

Inventor

Mozilla (David Hyatt, others)

Truevision

Status

legacy

active

Primary use cases
  • authoring

  • review and collaboration

  • distribution

  • xbl

  • html

  • xhtml

  • xml

  • capture ingest

  • editing

  • web or print delivery

  • bmp

  • png

  • tga

Common software
  • Firefox legacy UI

  • XULRunner

  • legacy Mozilla extensions

  • Pale Moon and related forks

  • ImageMagick

  • legacy graphics tools

  • preservation workflows

Archival suitability

strong

moderate

Metadata handling

moderate

moderate

Delivery profile

strong

strong

Workflow fit

exchange

delivery

Vector scaling

Not supported

Not supported

When to use each format

When to use XUL

  • authoring
  • review and collaboration
  • distribution
  • Enabled declarative cross-platform UI construction inside the Mozilla ecosystem.

When to use ICB

  • capture ingest
  • editing
  • web or print delivery
  • Important for long-tail compatibility with historic Truevision-era assets.

FAQs

Why convert XUL to ICB?

Choose ICB as target when recovering historical raster assets from Truevision-era systems or normalizing old image archives before moving them into PNG, TIFF, or another contemporary format.

What changes when converting XUL to ICB?

Convert to ICB when recovering historical raster assets from Truevision-era systems or normalizing old image archives before moving them into PNG, TIFF, or another contemporary format. It is mainly a compatibility target for legacy graphics collections.

What should I review after converting XUL to ICB?

After conversion, review these destination checks: Open converted output in ImageMagick and verify behavior on real samples; Compare output against the expected depends quality profile; Weak modern software recognition compared with ordinary.tga files.

How can I keep quality stable in XUL to ICB conversion?

Run representative samples, keep settings deterministic, and monitor these risks: Public documentation is mostly historical or secondary; Weak modern software recognition compared with ordinary.tga files; Validate destination compatibility before large-batch conversion.

Format resources

XULICB

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