Goanna in Australia likened goannas to the South American lizards.. Over time, the initial vowel sound was dropped. A similar explanation is used to link possum to the American opossum. Another possibility is that the name might have derived from the South African term for a monitor lizard, "leguaan", as the Cape of Good Hope was a popular refresher stop for immigrant ships to Australia from Britain. For a list of all monitor lizards of the genus, see Complete list of genus "Varanus". The following are found in Australia. For the most part, in common names, "goanna" and "monitor" are interchangeable.
Goanna (software) Goanna (software) Goanna is an open source browser engine that is a fork of Mozilla's Gecko. It is used in the Pale Moon browser, the Basilisk browser, and other UXP-based applications. Goanna as an independent fork of Gecko was first released in January 2016. The project's founder and lead developer, M. C. Straver, had both technical and legal motives to do this in the context of Pale Moon's increasing divergence from Firefox. There are two significant aspects of Goanna's divergence: It does not have any of the Rust language components that were added to Gecko during Mozilla's Quantum project, and