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Entry text: [quote="Tony Mechelynck"]The various kinds of confusion mentioned in the above comments are nothing new, I think. Some years ago, every time I started my new Netscape 6, a splash popup appeared in the middle of my desktop saying "Gecko". I had no idea what "Gecko" meant then, I think some people thought it was the new name of Netscape, others thought it was some kind of bootstrap utility whose role was to bring Netscape up to speed, but to me the browser-and-mailer was still "Netscape". I have learnt a few things since then, I have a better idea what "Gecko" means but I'm still unsure of where its boundaries are: is Toolkit part of Gecko? And what about NSS and NSPR? I don't know. Back then, the word "Gecko" had great visibility, maybe because it was new. But where is Gecko now? Oh wait, under Help=>About there's a long string of gobbledygook at the bottom, which starts with "Mozilla/5.0" and ends with "Gecko" followed by a slash and a string of digits. (I know that string of gobbledygook is called the User Agent but my granny wouldn't.) Not very self-explanatory to the layperson, but the name is still there.[/quote]
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