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Also known as Gecko engine, Gecko rendering engine, Firefox Gecko, Mozilla Gecko
free HTML layout engine
Key facts
- Original author
- Netscape
- Developers
- Mozilla Foundation , Mozilla Corporation , Adobe Systems , and other contributors
- Initial release
- 1998 as NGLayout
- Stable release
- 125 / 16 February 2026 ; 3 months ago ( 16 February 2026 )
- Written in
- C++ , JavaScript , Rust
- Type
- Browser engine
- License
- MPL 2.0
- Website
- developer .mozilla .org /en-US /docs /Glossary /Gecko
- Repository
- hg .mozilla .org /mozilla-central /
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Gecko - Glossary | MDN
Gecko is the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project and used in many apps/devices, including Firefox and Firefox OS.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free and open-source software
- Part of
- Mozilla Firefox
- Named after
- gecko
- Creator
- Netscape
- Developer
- Mozilla Foundation
- Official website
- developer.mozilla.org/ru/docs/Glossary/Gecko
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- programmed in
- Rust
- software version identifier
- 147.0.4
- described at URL
- firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/overview/gecko.html
- source code repository URL
- hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
- inception
- 1998-00-00
- derivative work
- Iceweasel
- operating system
- Android
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/gecko
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