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I was amazed/saddened that they laid off the Servo team. That seemed like the one really worthwhile improvement Mozilla had bet on in a decade. I use and apprec
by tdeck 5y ago
I was amazed/saddened that they laid off the Servo team. That seemed like the one really worthwhile improvement Mozilla had bet on in a decade. I use and appreciate Firefox, maybe it's partly nostalgia for when FF pushed the web experience forward.
- kaba0 5y agoMaintaining even one browser engine is an ungodly amount of work (see how even microsoft dropped the ball on that), let alone 2. Discontinuing Servo was the correct decision however sad it is. On the other hand, Firefox does incorporate more and more Rust into the browser, but reimplementing such a core part is simply infeasible.
- zamadatix 5y agoServo was a research project to write those various Rust components that did made it into Firefox not an alternative reimplementation to one day replace it wholesale.
- tdeck 5y agoI hear what you're saying, but at the same time what's the way forward for Mozilla and Firefox? Firefox either needs to be way more performant than other browsers, or needs to have some significant UI benefits over other major browsers (like it used to have with tabs and extensions). With great respect to Mozilla, I don't see either happening or even a path to either anymore.
- kaba0 5y agoI still find Firefox plenty extensible, as well as it is the most privacy oriented browser, hands down. With containers, and tree style tabs/sideberry it gives a unique user experience. To me it is performant enough and has great adblocking through ublock origin (that is not in danger of removal by API changes, looking at you every single chromium fork).