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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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full featured HTML rendering engine like WebKit/Gecko for embedded Linux?

I want to use HTML+CSS+JavaScript to develop a user interface for a touchscreen device in a Linux environment and need a suitable rendering engine. The device in question will have a ARM CPU with 400 to 900 MHz clock, a VGA or WVGA display and…
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Detect Firefox IndexedDB or Web Storage storage limit, without filling up the disk?

I'd like to use IndexedDB to process a lot of data. Too much data to fit in memory. To do this, I would like to use Firefox's IndexedDB persistent storage, which allows me to store more than 2GB worth of data (Firefox apparently has a limit of 2GB…
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Gecko build failed error : Could not find autoconf 2.13., but autoconf already installed

I am trying to build Gecko Code, Which I have clone from Github : git clone https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev.git and I am getting autoconf 2.13 not found error, Which already installed in my Mac Machine: Tom-Swayer:gecko-dev vmishra$ autoconf…
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Thunderbird 31.6 removes doctype

I have the problem that Thunderbird version 31.6.0 seemingly removes or ignores my declaration. This becomes a problem when a is rendered that has a set height and additional padding-top or padding-bottom. Normally, you would…
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Any articles on how to get started building your own browser?

Hello recently I've been a bit curious and wanted to make a browser. I'd like to use an existing engine though such as Gecko or Webkit. Are there any resources on the web for how to get started and any examples? Language choice doesn't really…
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Disappearing CSS table cell borders in Gecko-based browsers

I have a very specific html table construct that seems to reveal a Gecko bug. Here's a distilled version of the problem. Observe the following table in a gecko-based browser (FF, for example): (you'll have to copy and paste this into a new…
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How do I embed Gecko using gecko-sharp on Mono/Windows?

Gecko is the rendering engine for Firefox. Using gecko-sharp it is possible to embed it to any Mono/GTK# program. There is a sample application called GladeSharpBrowser for doing this. I could manage to build it using a modified project file, but it…
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Trouble loading an NPAPI plugin in Mac app

I'm working on a standalone daemon executable that needs to load an existing third party NPAPI plugin on a host machine. What I want to do is render the generated views from the plugin to a texture/surface. It needs to work on both Mac and Windows,…
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Does GeckoView for Android provide a Javascript interface/callback?

Since the WebView implementation on Android depends on the Android version and the manufacturer (Samsung and other manufacturers apply their own patches to it), I'd like to provide my own rendering engine for my Android app to reduce QA overhead and…
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link element prefetching not working in Firefox 3.6

I am trying to test prefetching on Firefox 3.6. I'm using: I don't see any requests in Firebug's Net panel. When I look at the Apache 2 logs, I see only the page request, nothing after. I don't see the…
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Constant declaration with block

Recently I was looking into Firefox Add-on Builder SDK sources, and stumbled on such constants declaration: const { getCodeForKey, toJSON } = require("../../keyboard/utils"); I could find information about CommonJS Modules, but left part of this…
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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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Turn off “unreachable code after return statement” warning

In JavaScript development, I frequently return from execution to have an inartificial breakpoint: var args = arguments; return console.log(args); // debug criticalProcessing(args); Chrome and others are okay with it, but unfortunately for debugging…
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