

But the web browser supports WebExtensions as well. The browser supports legacy extensions, and you can head over to Mozilla's AMO site to install them right away in the browser. It features the same customization options and preferences as Firefox for the most part and all of these open exactly as they do in Firefox. It should not come as a surprise that Basilisk's interface looks pretty similar to that of Firefox pre-version 57. On Linux, any modern Linux Distribution should do but you should check out the requirements page on the Basilisk website for details on libraries that the browser requires. The developers recommend 1 Gigabyte of RAM as a minimum (2 Gigabyte for heavy use scenarios), a modern processor and a dedicated GPU. On Windows, all versions of Windows starting with Windows 7 are supported. The current development version of Basilisk is available for Windows and Linux. The development team sees Basilisk "primarily as a vessel for development of the XUL platform", and as a "potential replacement for Firefox to retain the use of Firefox Extensions". In short: Basilisk is based on recent Firefox code for the most part that supports legacy features such as XUL which Mozilla dropped with the release of Firefox 57. The browser itself is a fork of Mozilla's Firefox code base without the technology that went into the creation of Firefox 57 (but with the tech that Mozilla dropped in the process) Basilisk is a XUL-based web browser that uses Pale Moon's layout and rendering engine Goanna, which is a fork of Firefox's rendering engine Gecko.
