NewsForge: Platform-Specific Gecko-Based Browsers

“Among the goals common to most open source projects is
cross-platform compatibility, which allows developers to expand
their user base and allows users to deploy the software more
widely. But while some users enjoy having consistent software
across the various platforms that they use, sometimes a browser
that’s optimized for a particular operating system may be a better
choice. The three open source Gecko-based browsers detailed here
all use their respective operating systems’ native widget toolkit
to render their user interfaces.

“Gecko is the open source page-rendering engine used by Mozilla
Firefox…”

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