Photo of the Day 29th March 2025.

The singer from Gecko at a Manchester Records showcase night at Jabez Clegg, Manchester, 10th August 2007.

I just took the rubbish to the outside bins and saw a really plump, really long marbled gecko hanging out on the wall just next to my front door!

#marbledgecko
#gecko

Encontrei este pequeno cão estranho à porta de casa

Perguntei à parceira se podíamos ficar com ele

Mas ela rejeitou a proposta

I find it very odd when people refer to ‘two main browser engines’, those being Gecko and WebKit.

Do people really think Blink hasn’t diverged significantly enough to consider it another engine at this point?

@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag

In #Texas nicht 'exotisch', für eine norddeutsche Großstadtpflanze wie mich allerdings schon Entsprechend erschreckt habe ich mich, als ich das possierliche Tierchen - gerade aus dem Haus tretend - von innen an der Außentür vorfand.

Obwohl sie Glück bringen sollen, wollte ich ihn ungern IM Haus haben

My little green housemate is hiding between the boards of my deck (or, as we say in #Hawaii, my lanai).
#gecko #reptiles

so for years and years everyone on the correct side of the #tech politics spectrum has been weary of #mozilla foundation but also aware that the ... like 2%?... market share that #gecko holds among web engines is the only thing left from giving away the entire internet to google and apple.

whats keeping anyone from forking gecko and developing it separately? if the community rallies around it, then all the non-corpo aligned #foss browsers can build on it (significant proportion of them already do) and granted we have to give credit to mozilla but at least we don't have to constantly chase and disable every ai product they try to shove into their updates.

what am i missing?

Ladybird is an all-new browser developed from the ground up, using its own rendering engine not based on Chromium or Gecko, and it has some pretty widespread industry support.

#ladybird #browser #chromium #gecko #chrome #firefox
https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-ladybird-exciting-new-browser/

I really want to keep using & supporting #gecko but #Mozilla is going down the toilet- what to do?

#Firefox desktop -> #LibreWolf (that was easy, simply copied my profile and it all came back exactly as before)

#Firefox mobile -> #IronFox (also easy on #GrapheneOS via #Accrescent store)

I can still use #FirefoxSync on both which is nice 'cos I am not quite ready to leave that convenience yet.

Now it's mostly just a matter of replacing my dependency on #Pocket (compiled out of LibreWolf), but that was on my list of services to deprecate anyway...

Non-Gecko (Firefox), non-Blink (Chromium) and non-Webkit (Safari) browsers:

Servo (browser engine)
https://servo.org/

Ladybird
https://ladybird.org/

They don't seem ready for use yet though.

#NewSpecies!
New namib day gecko from #angola just came in:

Rhoptropus nivimontanus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0382D211-D138-FFAD-B0E2-21103FC9F9DD
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.3.2
#Zootaxa #RhoptropusNivimontanus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #gecko #daygecko

[Other's] Batty Hydra-tion!
Milkki wanted to try one of my drinks while he was over, unfortunately he didn't specify a "normal" drink!  x3

Drawn by @wizlicos, requested from their Patreon, with @/milkki.bsky.social on Bluesky!

Should we ditch Firefox? And replace it with a Firefox fork?

[Other's] Page-filling Geck!
Always could use more!  :3

By Kevira065 on FurAffinity!

I think it'd be a horrid thing for the web to be *entirely* shaped by Google/Chrome/Blink — so I'd encourage anyone shifting away from #Firefox at the moment in the wake of #Mozilla's insane moves to destroy itself to please consider sticking with a #Gecko-based browser.

And maybe we should all be keeping an eye on #Servo: https://servo.org/

@energisch_@troet.cafe @palha@dresden.network @virgil_tibbs@norden.social

Der basiert ja auf #Chrome und das ist schon lange schneller als #Firefox / #Gecko.

Ich finde aber bedenklich, wenn es bald nur noch 1 Engine gibt.