In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Despite ...

Internet Explorer might be the most well-known discontinued web browser, but the path to modern web giants like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari is filled with a rich history of innovation driven by a ...

The makers of the Firefox web browser have announced a plan to replace the browser’s Gecko rendering engine with a next-gen version called Quantum.

Mozilla's Jay Sullivan discusses the ambitious Boot 2 Gecko project, a HTML5-based smartphone OS designed to give developers and consumers a technology-agnostic platform with greater privacy and ...

In anticipation of changes to App Store policy, Mozilla is developing an iOS browser that would use its Gecko rendering engine instead of WebKit.

Camino—the Gecko-based browser with a native Cocoa user interface—is considering switching its underlying rendering engine to WebKit. Developer Stuart Morgan announced the proposed change this ...

Next up is the Gecko rendering engine, and on top of that is Gaia. Mozilla has built Gaia to be the user interface layer, and it’s all HTML and JavaScript.

Why? Because throughout its existence, the browser has been built using Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine — the one built for Firefox.

He noted that there are now only two other rendering engines in widespread use other than WebKit, namely Microsoft’s Trident and Mozilla’s Gecko.

The language allowed Mozilla engineers to remove memory-related security bugs in Firefox's Gecko rendering engine that were written in C++.

Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used open-source WebKit, now employed in the Apple ...