Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files.
Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files.
Sure would be nice to have another Web engine.
Absolutely this is great news now thenthing is making ppl adopt it.
Servo, Basilisk and Ladybird make me very optimistic about the future of web browsers. I'm glad to see that people are working on alternatives divorced from Mozilla, as it seems they don't care anymore.
Basilisk is the odd one out here. It is a continuation of pre-Servo Firefox ( Firefox before Rust ). It is not exactly a “new” engine.
Ladybird is probably the most exciting project as it is most likely to create a new independent browser suitable for daily use.
Servo was very exciting back when Mozilla was heavily invested in it. Sadly, it was long dormant. It really seems to be heating up again though so that is awesome.
Long term servo is unlike to be another web engine. It’ll just replace Firefox. Firefox’s old engine won’t get as much development. Then we’ll be left with Safari, Firefox (servo) and googles web manipulation vehicle Chrome safari with more tracking and higher battery/ram consumption.
Mozilla is not really associated with Servo anymore.
I would be surprised to see Firefox move to Servo.
It would be really great if Mozilla could pick Servo back up, and make it Firefox's engine, and make it like chromium, where the engine and browser are not so tighltly coupled together. GNOME Web could be so much better if it had the performance of Firefox.
GNOME Web stopped using Gecko as a backend when it was still embeddable. They decided on WebKit for other reasons.
If you like what you see, strongly consider contributing to Servo financially: https://opencollective.com/servo
I did and I feel quite happy about it. Here's hoping there is more web engines out there 👍
I'm just learning there's another web engine? I heard about Ladybird but not this. Now I need to try it.
Servo was an experimental ground for Mozilla in some ways (like testing out a new CSS engine and porting it back to Gecko if it works). So it's quite normal for people to be unaware of it, it was not meant for the public.
But later on it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation. Now it's a standalone project and I wish them well. We really need a new FOSS web engine.
Servo was codeveloped with rust by Mozilla, to get a faster and safer engine. Servo basically showed where improvements needed to be done and then rustc was modified to fit the need.
I tries it a couple months ago and it was horrible, didn't even support flexbox back then and it kept crashing. The latest nightly builds are almost usable for basic web browsing though, it's amazing how fast servo improves
Yeah, they mostly built the structure, and it seems they're filling in the details now. It would be awesome to see it become usable for everyday browsing.