Goanna (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 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]

Goanna

Developer(s)	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

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]