PaleMoon ahora usará GOANNA como motor

Why the different name?

Mostly to prevent confusion. Gecko has started to be carried by the Mozilla Group as being synonymous with the version of their browser of the same version; from a technical perspective, this isn't really correct to do and blurs the lines between framework/technology and an actual product building on it. Also, the name was changed to no longer be tied to something that is a registered trademark (Gecko is) and our derivative code should not carry it anymore with its own, continued development by independent people unaffiliated with the current trademark owners.

For a while, Gecko was adopted as-is (as a name) with continued independent changes, to provide an indication of its general feature set and capabilities, using sub-version numbers as minor versions while carrying the major version 25, in line with the same (product) numbering scheme used by Mozilla for Gecko. However, it had become increasingly incorrect to do so: it was not a variant of Gecko v25, and never really was. As it evolved, the need for its own name and versioning became more and more apparent, and so Goanna was created as a name for the forked-off layout engine in use.

In addition it created the false impression that the engine, and Pale Moon as a product, would be "an old (and outdated) version of Gecko" or "an old (and outdated) version of Firefox", respectively, neither of which are true.

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