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.

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[firewrought]

As an added bonus it creates 10,000 more exploits...

Servo is written in Rust, which eliminates the vast majority of C/C++/ObjC-style memory-mangling exploits up-front at compile-time. Don't get me wrong, exploits will still be possible (Rust lets you designate unsafe blocks of code, for instance, and some exploits aren't memory-related), but Servo will ultimately improve security for Firefox.