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Firefox 3 Gets A First Run
News Gecko 1.9 has been in development since before the release of Firefox 2, and provides vector-based rendering on all platforms. It uses version 1.9 of the Gecko rendering engine — which itself hasn't been released yet, but which includes the Cairo...
[December 12, 2006, 12:29]
Firefox 1.1 Delayed
News A lot has gone on behind the scenes improving Gecko, which is the rendering engine used by Firefox, Mozilla and other browsers such as Camino," said Hallowell.will see the result of these improvements including faster page rendering, further...
[January 31, 2005, 12:05]
Mozilla Releases Second Firefox 3 Release Candidate
News Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 web-rendering platform, which has been under development for 34 months. According to the Firefox 3 RC2 release notes, RC2 also promises changes to stability and rendering correctness.
[June 5, 2008, 12:33]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog Comment At least until xulrunner is working right, everything that wants to use Firefox's rendering engine (Gecko) has to be built against Firefox itself. So if we were to update Firefox there would be the potential for trouble not just in Firefox itself...
[July 2, 2008, 9:38]
What Would You Want To See In Microsoft's IE?
News Developers call IE's rendering of certain PNG images "ugly. There are certainly aspects of IE rendering that developers would love to see some changes to," Schare said. Despite this, Microsoft's browser software remains the industry standard, with...
[September 30, 2004, 15:00]
Opera Hints At Version 8 With Latest Beta
News The new Opera browser includes an updated and more prominent RSS tool, and rendering technology designed to cut out the need for horizontally scrolling across Web pages, regardless of screen size. Opera has been working on the problem of rendering...
[December 23, 2004, 13:20]
IE Only As A Last Resort
Talkback Occasionally I have to use the IE6 rendering engine with Firefox (using IE Tab) either because the page won't display correctly in Firefox, or because it uses ActiveX controls. I use Firefox, which I prefer to IE7.
[July 4, 2008, 11:08]
Microsoft's Thrilling Change Of Heart
Talkback They'd do better integrating Firefox's Gecko rendering engine into IE7. Currently IEt's CSS rendering can only be described as crap. Extend, embrace and destroy .er.what do you think!
[August 22, 2006, 18:38]
Microsoft Further Scales Back Mac Plans
Talkback doesn't safari use the same rendering engine as ie .mozilla,firefox,nepscape,camino(for mac) --> gecko.ie,safari,netscape(as of version 6 or something offer both) --> ie .konqueror (linux) --> khtml .i'm not trying to take ms's side .i don't...
[January 16, 2006, 6:53]
HTML Snapshot
Downloads Support for Firefox based rendering engine. HTML Snapshot is an ActiveX control that uses the Internet Explorers functionality to take (capture) a snapshot of a given URL. It hosts the Web browser control on windows to download Web page and then...
[July 6, 2008, 14:16]
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta
News Firefox 3 beta 1 adds to the popular open-source web browser a number of significant features that Mozilla said should improve security, ease of use, rendering of web pages, and the accessibility of previously visited web pages.
[November 20, 2007, 16:10]
Opera Is Definitely Worht It, Yes....
Talkback The Small Screen Rendering is particularly useful. .but my default browser is Firefox still. Opera is good for sure, and for me personally, i generally use it mainly for testing purposes when i build websites and webpages.
[February 15, 2007, 10:06]
Sage
Downloads Features include: Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds, Feed Discovery, Integrates with Firefox's bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks, Imports and exports OPML feed lists, Newspaper feed rendering customizable via style sheets, Technorati and...
[September 28, 2007, 9:45]
NoScript
Downloads Version 1.1.9 includes several changes such as extra QA for release, menu rendering speed optimizations, emulated TLD Effective service up to 100x speedup, and other improvements. NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock...
[December 13, 2007, 14:40]
Won't Hold My Breath
Talkback With Outlook 2007 switching it's rendering engine from IE to Word backfiring and causing Microsoft themselves to not be able to create HTML emails for their own product (see xbox live html emails on my blog) maybe they will learn their lesson and...
[January 28, 2008, 14:29]
Cortona VRML Client
Downloads Other features include complete VRML 97 support; advanced rendering; support of modern 3D accelerators via DirectX and OpenGL; Version 5.1 includes layers support; DirectX 9.x shaders support; improved rendering speed; VRML Automation for Mozilla...
[March 30, 2007, 22:46]
Netscape Parades Security Features
News Netscape 8 is based on Firefox 1.0.3 and uses that browser's Gecko rendering engine by default. However, several high-profile security vulnerabilities in IE have led others, including Netscape and Firefox distributor the Mozilla Foundation, to make...
[May 19, 2005, 9:30]
Adobe Releases Flash Player 9 For Linux
News Although the JavaScript engine is a major component, Adobe has not released other parts of the Flash Player, including its graphics rendering, networking and media-handling engines, said Pam Deziel, Adobe's director of platform product marketing.
[January 18, 2007, 8:25]
Firefox 1.0PR: A First Look
Talkback Fast page rendering. Or CTRL+TAB to cycle FireFox tabs the same way you would cycle applications with ALT+TAB. How is FireFox an "old interface" On the Google bar in FireFox - you CAN add multiple search engines to use (see the "Add Engines" menu...
[September 17, 2004, 0:42]
Netscape Gets 'No Phishing' Sign
News Among the surprises in the preview of Netscape 8 was the option of viewing pages in Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine or in IE's engine if the page doesn't render properly in Firefox. The advent of Mozilla's Firefox browser, which has seen more than...
[February 1, 2005, 9:00]
