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The latest version of Mozilla Firefox use engine Gecko or WebKit?

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And if your answer will be WebKit, tell me please what is the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, which use Gecko engine?

And if your answer will be WebKit, tell me please what is the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, which use Gecko engine?

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The only case Mozilla may ever use WebKit is on IOS.

Is there a particular reason why you think current desktop Firefox is using webkit?. It is not as if they can just swap out the engine and do so without news of it spreading all around tech sites.

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The latest version of Firefox uses Gecko. Browsers such as Safari and Chrome use webkit.

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The only case Mozilla may ever use WebKit is on IOS.

Is there a particular reason why you think current desktop Firefox is using webkit?. It is not as if they can just swap out the engine and do so without news of it spreading all around tech sites.

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We Want WebKit. because is more beautiful and faster and more smooth rendering.

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Saad Shamsaee said

We Want WebKit. because is more beautiful and faster and more smooth rendering.

Then use Chrome, Safari, or Opera. Mozilla has always used Gecko and other than on iOS I would expect Mozilla to continue using Gecko.

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the-edmeister said

Saad Shamsaee said
We Want WebKit. because is more beautiful and faster and more smooth rendering.

Then use Chrome, Safari, or Opera. Mozilla has always used Gecko and other than on iOS I would expect Mozilla to continue using Gecko.

you want i to migrate to another browser? no. previous year one time i did it, but i got remorse. Firefox is best, but not at all around.

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Sorry, but you're being silly now or are terribly misinformed. If you want WebKit, the only way you're gonna get it with the Firefox name is on iOS and that won't be the "real Firefox".

Mozilla is based upon Netscape, which created the Gecko rendering engine. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/history/details/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox

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i have not bad aim. Firefox is my choose and my love. my english is bad and i can't describe more. who want to know why Firefox can't switch to Webkit, please search in internet. previous week i read in a blog but now i can't find. if Mozilla switch to Webkit, it will lose some important features.

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There was a lot written about Opera switching to WebKit back in Feb 2013, but I haven't found anything that was posted recently via a search for "Mozilla switch to WebKit"

Here's a blog article written by the Mozilla CTO at that time. https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/15/why-mozilla-matters-and-wont-switch-to-webkit/

http://www.quora.com/Will-Firefox-ever-drop-its-Gecko-layout-engine-to-adopt-WebKit

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Will-Never-Switch-to-WebKit-330125.shtml

http://www.sitepoint.com/5-reasons-to-reject-webkit-monoculture/

Overall, a switch to WebKit would spell the end of Mozilla. The Firefox OS would be dead in the water, along with XUL, ....

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Saad Shamsaee said

i have not bad aim. Firefox is my choose and my love. my english is bad and i can't describe more. who want to know why Firefox can't switch to Webkit, please search in internet. previous week i read in a blog but now i can't find. if Mozilla switch to Webkit, it will lose some important features.

What you read may have been about work on getting a web browser on iOS, since Gecko will not be allowed due to Apple restrictions. This is the closest something from Mozilla that may ever have webkit in use instead of Gecko and will be a shell and not the Firefox.

The browser we know as Firefox has had Gecko as the rendering engine ever since it was Phoenix 0.1 back in Sept 2002 and it is not about to change to webkit after so long. It would basically be a new browser if they ever did use webkit.