The development team emphasizes minimal data collection, with no mandatory browser accounts or built-in telemetry tracking.
It uses the Goanna rendering engine (a fork of Mozilla's Gecko) and is built on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP) .
Unlike modern browsers that undergo frequent UI redesigns, Basilisk retains a traditional desktop-focused interface based on the Australis style.
Basilisk is one of the few modern browsers that still supports XUL/Overlay Mozilla-style extensions and NPAPI plugins like Flash, Java, and Silverlight.
