In October 1998, Netscape announced that its next browser would use Gecko (which was still called NGLayout at the time) rather than the old layout engine, requiring large parts of the application to be rewritten.
U oktobru 1998. godine, Netscape je najavio da će njihov sledeći pretraživač koristiti Gecko (koji se još uvek zvao NGLayout u to vreme) umesto starog raspoređivača, što je zahtevalo da se veliki delovi aplikacije napišu ponovo.