Goanna (software)
| Goanna logo | |
| Developer(s) | M. C. Straver[1] |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 2016[2] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Engine | |
| Type | Browser engine |
| License | MPL 2.0 |
| Website | www |
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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. It underlies the Interlink mail client, Hyperbola's fork of Basilisk known as Iceweasel-UXP, and other UXP-based applications.[4][5][6] It was also unofficially ported to Windows XP for the K-Meleon browser[7] and Mypal.[8]
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.[9][10] 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,[11][12] and applications that use Goanna always run in single-process mode, whereas Firefox became a multi-process application.[13][14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 M.C. Straver. "About Moonchild Productions". Archived from the original on 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2018-04-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "UXP vs goanna". forum.palemoon.org.
- ↑ "Iceweasel-UXP". Hyperbola. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ↑ "There is only XUL". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ↑ "K-Meleon on Goanna". kmeleonbrowser.org.
- ↑ Mypal browser homepage
- ↑ "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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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. Unknown parameter
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