Goanna (software)
Open source browser engine
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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]
| Goanna | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer | M. C. Straver[1] |
| Initial release | January 2016[2] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Type | Browser engine |
| License | MPL 2.0 |
| Website | www |
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.[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]