Usage
Gecko is primarily used in web browsers, the earliest being Netscape 6 and Mozilla Application Suite (later renamed SeaMonkey). It is also used in other Mozilla web browser derivatives such as Firefox, Camino, Flock, K-Meleon and the implementation of Internet Explorer that is part of Wine.
Google's picture-organization software Picasa (for Linux) is based on Gecko.
DevHelp, a GTK+/GNOME browser for API documentation, uses Gecko for rendering documents.
Other products not included in the table include Sleipnir, Swiftfox, Portable Firefox, Fennec, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox, HP Secure Web Browser, Oxygen, Minimo, Sylera (for mobile), Thunderbird (email), Sunbird (calendar) and Instantbird.
Gecko is also used by Sugar for the OLPC XO-1 computer. Gecko is used as a complete implementation of the XUL (XML User Interface Language). Gecko currently defines the XUL specification.
The following table compares the different versions of Gecko:
| Gecko version | All platforms | Windows only | Mac only | *nix only | *nix mobile | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Netscape | Mozilla | SeaMonkey | Flock | Songbird/Nightingale | Beonex | Lunascape | K-Meleon | Pale Moon | Camino | Galeon | Epiphany | Kazehakase | MicroB | |
| 0.6 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||||||||
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||
| 0.9.2 | 6.1 | 0.9.2 | |||||||||||||
| 0.9.4 | 6.2 | 0.9.4 | 0.5 | ||||||||||||
| 0.9.4.1 | 6.2.2 | 0.9.4.1 | 0.7 | ||||||||||||
| 0.9.5 | 0.9.5 | 0.6 | |||||||||||||
| 0.9.7 | 0.9.7 | 1.0.2 | |||||||||||||
| 1.0.1 | 7.0 | 1.0.1 | 0.8.1 | ||||||||||||
| 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 0.8.2 | |||||||||||||
| 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.9pre | |||||||||||||
| 1.2b | 0.1 | 1.2b | 0.7 | ||||||||||||
| 1.3a | 0.5 | 1.3a | |||||||||||||
| 1.4 | 7.1 | 1.4 | |||||||||||||
| 1.4.1 | 1.4.1 | 1.0.4 | |||||||||||||
| 1.5 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | ||||||||||||
| 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.2.8 | |||||||||||
| 1.7.2 | 7.2 | 1.7.2 | |||||||||||||
| 1.7.5 | 8.0.2 | 1.7.5 | 0.9 | ||||||||||||
| 1.8.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| 1.8.1 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 4.8 | 1.1, 1.5 | 1.6.5 | 2.16 | |||||||
| 1.9.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 - 2.6 | 0.5 - 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.22 | ||||||||||
| 1.9.1 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 3.5 | ||||||||||
| 1.9.2 | 3.6 | 1.9.3 | 6.3 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 2.1a1 | 1.7.4.8 | ||||||||
| 2.0 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 4.0 | ||||||||||||
| 5.0 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 5.0 | ||||||||||||
| 6.0 | 6.0 | 2.3 | 6.0 | ||||||||||||
| 7.0 | 7.0 | 2.4 | 7.0 | ||||||||||||
| 8.0 | 8.0 | 2.5 | |||||||||||||
| 9.0 | 9.0 | 2.6 | |||||||||||||
| 10.0 | 10.0 | 2.7 | |||||||||||||
| 11.0 | 11.0 | 2.8 | |||||||||||||
| 12.0 | 12.0 | 2.9 | |||||||||||||
| Gecko version | Firefox | Netscape | Mozilla | SeaMonkey | Flock | Songbird/Nightingale | Beonex | Lunascape | K-Meleon | Pale Moon | Camino | Galeon | Epiphany | Kazehakase | MicroB |
| All platforms | Windows only | Mac only | *nix only | *nix mobile | |||||||||||
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