Goanna_(software)

Goanna (software)

Goanna (software)

Software

Goanna is an open-source browser engine and part of Unified XUL Platform that was forked from Mozilla's Gecko.[3] It is used in the Pale Moon and Basilisk browsers. It underlies the Interlink mail client, Hyperbola's IceWeasel, and other UXP-based applications.[4][5] It was also unofficially ported to Windows XP for the K-Meleon browser[6] and Mypal.[7]

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History

Goanna as an independent fork of Gecko was first released in January 2016.[2] The project's founder and lead developer, M. C. Straver,[1] cited technical- and trademark-related motives to do this in the context of Pale Moon's increasing divergence from Firefox.[8][9] There are two significant aspects of Goanna's divergence: it does not have any of the Rust language components that were added to Gecko during Mozilla's Quantum project,[10][11] and applications that use Goanna always run in single-process mode, whereas Firefox became a multi-process application.[12][13]

References

  1. [1]
    M.C. Straver. "About Moonchild Productions". Archived from the original on 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  2. [2]
    "Release notes for old versions of Pale Moon". palemoon.org.
  3. [3]
    M.C. Straver. "The Goanna layout engine". Pale Moon website. Archived from the original on 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  4. [4]
    "UXP vs goanna". forum.palemoon.org.
  5. [5]
    "There is only XUL". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  6. [6]
    "K-Meleon on Goanna". kmeleonbrowser.org.
  7. [7]
    Mypal browser homepage
  8. [8]
    "Introducing Goanna". forum.palemoon.org. M.C. Straver. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
  9. [9]
    "Pale Moon to switch from Gecko to Goanna rendering engine". ghacks.net. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  10. [10]
    "Basilisk web browser". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  11. [11]
    "Quantum". wiki.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  12. [12]
    "Multiprocess Firefox". developer.mozilla.org. Mozilla. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  13. [13]
    "Multi-process, or: the drawbacks nobody ever talks about". forum.palemoon.org. M.C. Straver. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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