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An open source browser engine developed by Mozilla and used in browsers such as Firefox, Seamonkey and others

Gecko is an open source browser engine developed by Mozilla and used in browsers such as Firefox, Seamonkey and others.

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What's the best way to cycle through a large number of fixed position images in WebKit efficiently?

I'm currently working on a little site for my family. One of the things I wanted to do was to make a basic 'making of' stop-motion video. I could assemble it and upload it to Vimeo or something but I thought it was a perfect opportunity to use…
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-moz-background-clip: *text* in Mozilla

Is there a good way to implement this in Mozilla? I have done it successfully in Webkit using -webkit-background-clip: text;. I have been trying to implement it into Firefox with no success. MDN has it listed as -moz-background-clip but there is no…
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How to run headless Firefox on Xvfb

I am trying to run a webdriver with geckodriver. I have installed selenium gecko, firefox and have python27. My folder has the script and the geckodriver. When am running from centOS the command python script.py it says…
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Print Stylesheet - Printed Page width Different in Webkit vs. Gecko/IE

When printing the page below in Safari/Chrome, the content (everything on the page, basically) is squished into the left side of the page, at about 60% of the page's width. However, in FireFox and IE 7, the printed page shows the content as the full…
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How do modern browsers do tiled rendering (particularly in Direct2D) efficiently?

This question has to do with how browsers render an entire page as tiled images (and is not about rendering images within pages.) I'm most interested in the memory costs. It is my understanding that a browser such as Chrome will layout the entire…
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Fixing site size in FireFox vs Chrome on large screens

It seems that Gecko, Trident and Webkit have a different way of displaying web pages on high resolution screens. Webkit browsers like Chrome and the new Opera will zoom the page out to match the pixel resolution of the screen. However, this might…
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gecko clear cache history & cookies

Help! I use GeckoFx-Windows-10.0-0.6 for browser and xulrunner-10.0.en-US.win32. ( Visual Studio 2010 c# ) everything works well. But i need to clear all history as at Firefox : Tools >> Options >> Privacy I find how clear cookie over…
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How to embed Webkit/Gecko layout engine and start using it for UI?

I dont have much experience with C++ projects like Gecko or Webkit and I'd like to embed either Gecko or Webkit to a project so that I could construct my UI with HTML and CSS. Something I'm wondering is that how do I handle events and such in C++…
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Is there a Gecko equivalent to -webkit-mask or a fancy way of degrading for Gecko browsers?

I'm looking for a solid answer on whether or not there is an equivalent to -webkit-mask in Gecko browsers/Firefox? If not, is there any way of degrading -webkit-mask in CSS to a straight background-image deal or should I just give up and use…
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Why is the height calculation so inconsistent in Gecko and Blink when dealing with inline-block elements?

As you can see below, both Gecko and Blink performs an inconsistent height calculation for different inline-block elements, even though they all have the same css class. It seems like (*pause*) Trident is the only layout engine to get it right. Did…
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How can I create thumbnails of web pages using a layout engine in Perl?

Are there bindings for layout engines like Gecko or WebKit for Perl? I found Gtk2-Webkit on CPAN but I would like to know if there are other options. My idea is to use one of those engines to create thumbnails of web pages from a Perl script.
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document.readyState analog for gecko-based browsers

IE has attribute readyState in document object, that indicates current state, e.g. "loading", "complete" etc. Is there any way to find current loading state of document in Mozilla-based browsers? I'm aware of DOMContentLoaded event, but it wont fit…
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How to create a thumbnail of a website?

Is would guess that there is already a webkit/gecko based command line app (maybe even working as a server speed up to rending of multiple pages) which is already doing this?
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Does font-size affect the rendering of ligatures?

Gecko and Webkit browsers support rendering of ligatures ff fi fl ffl via text-rendering: optimizeLegibility (font must have ligatures, e. g. Calibri). MDN page says, that only text of size 20px and higher will get ligatures. According to my own…
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Java Browser library

I need to implement a simple browser in java. I've been researching several possibilities including JxBrowser, JBrowser, JavaFX (WebEngine + WebView), among others. JxBrowser has potential but it's a paid library, which I would like to avoid. This…
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