>What?
Gecko is the oldest actively maintained browser engine in existence. Since its humble start as a tech demo at Netscape in 1997, Gecko has received large contributions from Adobe, Google, Mozilla, Oracle, IBM, and thousands of individual contributors.
>Why would I use this shit?
Gecko builds a tree of nsIFrame objects for each document. Each frame represents one CSS box, a rectangular area which renders content. A single DOM node can generate multiple CSS boxes when it breaks. For example, an inline element or text node can break across multiple lines, creating multiple boxes, and hence multiple nsIFrames in Gecko. The frames for a single DOM node are linked into a doubly-linked list, the "continuation chain". Continuations are great for complicated layout like pagination, columns and advanced layouts like "fill text into this box here, and then when that's full, this other box over here". This architecture makes Gecko faster than competing engines in many such cases. Another area where Gecko shines is style computation, to this day, Gecko is the only commercial browser engine that parallelizes style computation and selector matching across many threads. Layout is completely stalled until style completes so its important that this step is as fast as possible. A good style benchmark: perftest.netlify.app
>Where?
Gecko runs great everywhere, and is officially supported on macOS, Windows 7/8/10/11, and on Linux, Gecko has the best support for Wayland at the moment. There are a lot of great Gecko browsers that serve many different niches, too may to list in fact.
/moz/ - Gecko general
Hunter Stewart
Juan Rivera
Can you really go wrong with ESR + user Js?
Aiden Howard
where's male poon?
Blake Sullivan
>(((Gecko)))
Literal insecure botnet
Samuel Collins
All of them are shit on JS-heavy sites on older machines. Thinkpad x230, FF, Pale Moon, MyPal, all freeze for like 2 seconds when loading anything that isn’t 4chin or a static site, on XP, 7 and 10.
Meanwhile, Chrome is smooth as butter.
Jackson Morris
SeaMonkey is simply the best
Juan Johnson
>Floorp
really, were normal words taken?
Nolan Flores
malepoon bros...we were mogged by the adware waterfox
Kevin Foster
Just use icecat
Xavier Cox
Why use a dedicated browser for it when you can just have a second profile?