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Ask HN: What web browser engines are under active development?
With the recent layoffs at Mozilla, I'm wondering quite simply: which browser engines are actively being developed, and which browsers are using them? From what I understand, we're just left with WebKit, Gecko, and Blink?
Are there any other engines in active development?
- ShradhaSingh 6y agoGhost Browser
- _1tan 6y agoGhost browser is chromium based. Says it right on their website: https://ghostbrowser.com/ https://ghostbrowser.com/
- csilverman 6y agoThere's something called Servo, although from what I understand, it's not going to be presenting any mainstream competition to Chrome any time soon. https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/
- shakna 6y agoMost of the team were laid off [0], Servo was a Mozilla project. They're still reeling, but it looks like Mozilla will be moving their efforts to Firefox proper, rather than integrating the best parts of Servo into Firefox. [0] https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575 https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575
- shakna 6y agolynx is still under active development, so that might count. It uses a fork of libwww as the engine. Goanna is a fork of Gecko for Pale Moon, but development is slow. KHTML is basically in maintainence-only, but is WebKit's ancestor.