What is Gecko?
Gecko is the underlying technology used by Firefox to render web pages; it provides fast, accurate and easy-to-read displays of web pages. Gecko is developed by the Mozilla foundation, and is used in many applications which require the display of html; mobile web browsers, help display for some programs, AOL for Mac OS X, but mainly in Firefox. Gecko is set to have faster render times via the 'Cairo' API, and so it will really be the fastest web-page display technology. The webpage rendering system used in Internet Explorer is 'Trident' – a Microsoft developed platform that is often the slowest in tests.
Gecko is available to run on nearly every Operating System which is why Firefox is also available for most Operating Systems; it is also Open Source which means that it is better maintained and up-to-date than non-Open-source layout rendering engines such as Internet Explorer's Trident.
In summary, Gecko is the base technology which runs under Firefox, making it better than Internet Explorer which uses Trident as its rendering engine.
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