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Mozilla's New Servo Browser Will Hit Alpha In June 2016 (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has announced it is releasing the first alpha versions of its Servo browser this upcoming June. The project uses browser.html for the browser's UI and Rust for the browser's core. There's a similarity between how Microsoft launched Spartan (Edge) and how Mozilla is launching Servo now. While many might think Mozilla is sneakily working on a Firefox replacement, Mozilla has also invested quite a lot in Firefox these days, like WebExtensions and e10s, and it may be more plausible that Servo might slowly be integrated in Firefox to replace Gecko, rather than replace Firefox altogether, like Microsoft did with Edge to IE.
Are they giving up on Firefox?
What about Seamonkey?
You're describing Opera before they for some fucked up reason decided to throw their code away and rewrite it as a Chromium skin. I'm still weeping over it.
Good heavens, there sure is a lot of "old man yells at cloud" in the comments so far, given all the complaining about Firefox. Which the story isn't even about, I should note. I may have missed something, but isn't Firefox open-source/free/libre software? Couldn't you make yourselves an un-"ruined" version or just go back to an older release from an archive rather than complain incessantly about how Mozilla isn't working to give you the browser you want rather than making the browser they want (since you're not paying them or providing them with any other benefit that I can see). I'm glad they are finding motivation to continue their work from somewhere, because if I had a community/user base like this, I would flat out quit. Go back to gopher and usenet, for pete's sake.
I tried Servo recently. Holy shit, was I ever disappointed.
Then you had your expectations way too high. It's not even due to be alpha for a few months. And when it's alpha its in the state of "this is crap let us know when it breaks and it WILL break all the time".
There's so much hype about Servo on Hacker News and Reddit, so I thought that maybe it was going to be usable,
Wow, you managed to actually ignore all the hype and only remember that there was hype and not what it'a about. The hype is that it's written in a brand new systems programming language which allows C++ speed but with provable memory and thread safety. It promises to be a more secure and faster rendering engine.
It has essentially no usable UI of any sort,
No shit! It's a rendering engine.
Maybe this is excusable since it's just a rendering engine, and not an entire browser, but it's still disappointing. ...?
The native interface of a rendering engine is an API.
Servo needs a fucking massive amount of work to be comparable even to old versions of Firefox or Chrome.
Yeah? It's got all of the current dev, then all of alpha then all of beta to go before it's released.
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