Servo Reviews and Details

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• Leaving Mozilla

  Servo [0] is EU funded via NLnet. You can build a browser from that. [0] https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Why Embedding Web Content in Rust Was So Painful (Until Now)

  For those unfamiliar, Servo is a web rendering engine originally started at Mozilla Research. It's written in Rust from the ground up and was designed to take advantage of modern hardware through parallelism — layout, styling, and painting can happen concurrently across CPU cores. Many of Servo's innovations actually made their way into Firefox over the years (Stylo, WebRender). - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Ladybird Browser Adopts Rust

  Firefox was special in that Mozilla created Rust to build Servo and then backported parts of Servo to Firefox and ultimately stopped building Servo. Thankfully Servo has picked up speed again and if one wants a Rust based browser engine what better choice than the one the language was built to enable? https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Flutter Winit-Wgpu Shell

  So things like media players from the native platform wouldn't be required. in-app browsers can use something like [servo](https://servo.org/) map-gis widgets can use something like [galileo](https://github.com/galileo-map/galileo). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: Perplexity Comet vs. ChatGPT Atlas

  I very much dislike that they arent available for linux. Which means I havent tested them; I also dont see a need for them. I dont want or use AI in the browser. Brave has had Leo for ages now. Qwen3 14b in the cloud is a fine model, no thanks though. I very much prefer my local llama private models for privacy. None of these ai browsers let you go local; but even if they did, I doubt id use it anyway. What the... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• The time is right for a DOM templating API

  It's also the case that every feature in web standards means extra code that needs to be painstakingly maintained, and extra code that anyone trying to create a standards-compliant browser must implement. I want to see projects like https://servo.org/ actually have a chance to catch up over time, not always be chasing an expanding scope. I want the web platform to have every possible capability that native... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives

  Yes, it was revived by Igalia, and has good momentum. Check https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives

  I can’t wait until Servo has spun up sufficiently. https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• An Update on Mozilla's Terms of Use for Firefox

  Though not yet ready for the public don't forget the promising https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser

  I understand that people need alternatives that work now but please consider contributing your developer expertise and/or donating to Ladybird[0] / Servo[1]. We need to get away from our current engine monoculture of Chromium/Gecko (yes I know webkit exists) [0]: https://ladybird.org [1]: https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Welcome to Ladybird, a independent web browser

  Ladybird is lucky in that it has someone who knows how important marketing is, even for opensource projects. There are other opensource browser engine projects languishing because of lack of PR, patronage and / or volunteers. For e.g. NetSurf https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ - website is outdated because of lack of volunteers, but the project has active development -... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Manifest v2 is now removed from Chrome canary

  I realize I'm about to post something that sounds like the most generic HN slop comments... But considering it's why Mozilla initially made the language in the first place: I was ecstatic about Ladybird from a "fun NIH project" but once it became "serious" it was quite the let down that the hot new independent kickstart was... Built in C++. I'm not going to say the "R" word, mostly because I'm less interested... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis

  Just as the other commenter said, I think for a start I will switch to LibreWolf or Waterfox, probably the first, as it's more focused on privacy and seems to be the safer bet. Completely ditching the Firefox core browser is probably not really possible. I'm not 100% sure how comparable the degoogled Chromium's are to something like LibreWolf, but something in me just doesn't want to switch to anything Google... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

  Don’t think this really fits in with HN guidelines. Seriously, check out https://servo.org , they post monthly updates and the progress seems great. And their repo, too - too bad GitHub can’t display code frequency because there’s too many commits in the project. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times

  Rust is definitely used in Firefox, but Servo[0], which was going to be the replacement browser engine (or at least the testbed for that), was abandoned by Mozilla, in a limbo for some time and now under new stewardship. On a meta-level, I think the story that people like to tell is that Mozilla chose increasing executive compensation rather than using the same money to keep the Servo (and people working on Rust... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• So you think you know box shadows?

  That sounds like something from the shuttered Servo team. At least they rose like a phoenix - https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

  The following Mastodon toot is about https://servo.org that could become another alternative. Quote : "Servo is faaaar from ready for general use yet, but it's picking up development speed. Definitely an option to keep an eye on for the future. ". - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• I'm Funding Ladybird Because I Can't Fund Firefox

  Why is Ladybird getting so much attention. Has anyone herd of servo? They're trying to offload css rendering to the gpu. That could be a big deal in the long run. https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Welcome to Ladybird, a independent web browser

  Does anyone know, how it compares to Servo? https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Welcome to Ladybird

  Check what is happening in Servo (https://servo.org). Some active members also want something very modular, and this is helped by work being actively done to use the engine in various contexts. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Best alternative to Chrome for power-user?

  I use memory saver on Chrome and it helps substantially but Chrome just doesn't feel right. It might be the most secure browser out there but performance is lacking. Modern software should be more efficient than this. There is open-source Rust browser engine in the making called Servo (https://servo.org/), I hope they eventually come up with more efficient browser. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago