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Mozilla Announces Quantum, a New Browser Engine For Firefox (softpedia.com)

Posted by msmash on from the Firefox-delights dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla is currently working on a new browser engine called Quantum, which will take parts from the Servo project and create a new core for the Firefox browser. The new engine will replace the aging Gecko, Firefox' current engine. Mozilla hopes to finish the transition to Quantum (as in Quantum Leap) by the end of 2017. The first versions of Quantum will heavily rely on components from Servo, a browser engine that Mozilla has been sponsoring for the past years, and which shipped its first alpha version this June. In the upcoming year, Mozilla will slowly merge Gecko and Servo components with each new release, slowly removing Gecko's ancient code, and leaving Quantum's engine in place.

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  1. Sounds like a disaster in the making by somenickname · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, the idea is to replace the working but "ancient" code with stuff that is currently considered alpha quality software? In the next year? For a project the size of Firefox? That certainly doesn't sound like a recipe for success.

  2. Re:why? by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has a removable battery, and a headphone jack. You can't have those in a modern Web 3.0 Internet of Things Cloud based web browser engine, that's soooo 2015.

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  3. Re:By the end of 2017 by ArtemaOne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then you can stick to the ones mining all of your data.