Gecko Alternatives

Gecko is described as 'The name of the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project. Gecko's function is to render web content, such as HTML, CSS, XUL, JavaScript, and render it on the user's screen or print it' and is an app in the web browsers category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gecko for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Gecko alternative is Servo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gecko are Gosub, NetSurf, WebKit and Blink Rendering Engine.

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  1. Servo icon
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    Servo is a modern, high-performance web rendering engine designed for both application and embedded use.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • KaiOS
    • Firefox OS
     
    • Servo is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to Gecko.

    • Servo is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Gecko.

    • Servo is Free and Open SourceGecko is also Free and Open Source
  2. Gosub icon
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    Gosub is a web browser with its own web engine. This engine is a modular system that allows developers to easily plug in their own components to customize the functionality of the engine. This will result in a more diverse landscape of browsers in the future.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. NetSurf icon
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    NetSurf is a free, open source web browser. It is written in C and released under the GNU Public Licence version 2. NetSurf has its own layout and rendering engine entirely written from scratch. It is small and capable.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
     
  4. WebKit icon
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    WebKit is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • WebKit is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Gecko.

    • WebKit is Free and Open SourceGecko is also Free and Open Source
  5. Blink is the rendering engine used by Chromium. Blink's mission is to improve the open web through

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Android Wear
     
    • Blink Rendering Engine is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Gecko.

    • Blink Rendering Engine is Free and Open SourceGecko is also Free and Open Source
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    Tkhtml is a open-source browser engine written in C using the Tk widget toolkit. It was used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 (Hv3) minimalist web browser.

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    • Online
     
    • Tkhtml is the most popular Web-based alternative to Gecko.

    • Tkhtml is Free and Open SourceGecko is also Free and Open Source
  7. Presto was the proprietary browser engine of the Opera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013, at which time Opera switched to using the Blink engine that was originally created for Chromium.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. MSHTML (also known as Trident) is a proprietary browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. EdgeHTML icon
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    EdgeHTML is a fork of the MSHTML (Trident) engine of Internet Explorer. It is designed as a software component that enables developers easily to add web browsing functionality to other apps.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Windows
    • Xbox
     
  10. Vaev icon
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    A lightning-fast, lightweight, and secure HTML/CSS engine.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Vaev is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Gecko.

    • Vaev is Free and Open SourceGecko is also Free and Open Source
    • Vaev is Security-focused and LightweightGecko is not according to our users
  11. Goanna  icon
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    Goanna is the name for the Open Source layout and rendering engine as used in Unified XUL Platform (UXP) applications like the Pale Moon web browser and the Interlink mail/news client.

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    • Windows
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    It originated as the engine of the Konqueror browser in the late 1990s, Built on the KParts framework and written in C++, KHTML had relatively good support for Web standards during its prime. Engines forked from KHTML are used by most of the browsers that are widely used today...

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