Goanna AlternativesBrowser Engines and other similar apps like Goanna

Goanna is described as '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' and is a Browser Engine in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Goanna for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Goanna alternative is Servo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Goanna are Gosub, NetSurf, WebKit and Gecko.

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

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

    • Servo is Free and Open SourceGoanna 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.

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    • 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
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • WebKit is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Goanna .

    • WebKit is Free and Open SourceGoanna is also Free and Open Source
  5. Gecko icon
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    Gecko is 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.

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    • Android Tablet
    • Firefox OS
    • Fire TV
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
    • Gecko is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Goanna .

    • Gecko is Free and Open SourceGoanna is also Free and Open Source
  6. Blink is the rendering engine used by Chromium. Blink's mission is to improve the open web through

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Android Wear
     
  7. 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 Goanna .

    • Vaev is Free and Open SourceGoanna is also Free and Open Source
    • Vaev is Security-focused and LightweightGoanna is not according to our users
  8. 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
     
    • EdgeHTML is the most popular Web-based alternative to Goanna .

    • EdgeHTML is Free and ProprietaryGoanna is Free and Open Source
  9. 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
     
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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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  11. 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
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    • iPhone
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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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