Goanna (software)
Goanna is an open-source browser engine and part of Unified XUL Platform that was forked from Mozilla's Gecko. It is used in the Pale Moon and Basilisk browsers, the Interlink mail client, and other UXP-based applications.
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| Goanna | |
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| Developer | M. C. Straver[1] |
| Initial release | January 2016[2] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Type | Browser engine |
| License | MPL 2.0 |
| Website | www.palemoon.org/tech/goanna.shtml |
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, the Interlink mail client, and other UXP-based applications.[4][5]
History
[edit]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.[6][7] 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,[8][9] and applications that use Goanna always run in single-process, multi-threaded mode, whereas Firefox became a multi-process application.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b M.C. Straver. "About Moonchild Productions". Archived from the original on 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- ^ a b "Release notes for old versions of Pale Moon". palemoon.org.
- ^ M.C. Straver. "The Goanna layout engine". Pale Moon website. Archived from the original on 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ "UXP vs goanna". forum.palemoon.org.
- ^ "There is only XUL". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "Introducing Goanna". Pale Moon forum. M.C. Straver. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
- ^ Brinkmann, Martin (2015-06-22). "Pale Moon to switch from Gecko to Goanna rendering engine". ghacks.net. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ "Basilisk web browser". basilisk-browser.org. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
- ^ "Quantum". MozillaWiki. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
- ^ "Multiprocess Firefox". Mozilla Developer Network. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ "Multi-process, or: the drawbacks nobody ever talks about". Pale Moon forum. M.C. Straver. 2017-11-20. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 24 August 2018.