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Huh? Why would they drop development of key components to their main product? What is Mozilla without Firefox? Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkIX5

Huh? Why would they drop development of key components to their main product? What is Mozilla without Firefox? Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkIX5ryZZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkIX5ryZZ4 Basically, Mozilla gave Servo employees the foot and the project was taken over by the linux foundation. Servo dev has been restarted (mostly) during 2023 and the changed Firefox made to their servo implemementation is now being added to servo in batches (ongoing). So Servo team is aiming to become a full featured (standalone) web platform (browser).

robin_reala 3y ago
They integrated what they felt was worthwhile, and continue to develop and support those pieces internally to Firefox.
zaphar 3y ago
Servo is not Firefox. It was always a testbed research platform. Stopping development of Servo does not mean stopping development of Firefox.
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Longhanks 3y ago
> What is Mozilla without Firefox? De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy.
- chimeracoder 3y ago
  > De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy. If you think that's the case, then Google is clearly failing at that goal, since they've aggressively taken browser share directly from Firefox users to the point where Firefox may no longer be supported by government services.
kramerger 3y ago
> project was taken over by the linux foundation Why? What is role of Linux Foundation anyway? (Beside spending members tons of spam and completely ignore GDPR?)
- fabrice_d 3y ago
  Their role is mostly being a fiscal host to receive donations. Servo moved to the Linux Foundation Europe recently (https://servo.org/slides/2023-04-25-servo-and-linux-foundation-europe/ https://servo.org/slides/2023-04-25-servo-and-linux-foundati...), which should make it easier to receive grants from EU programs - this is a good thing!

robin_reala 3y ago

They integrated what they felt was worthwhile, and continue to develop and support those pieces internally to Firefox.

zaphar 3y ago

Servo is not Firefox. It was always a testbed research platform. Stopping development of Servo does not mean stopping development of Firefox.

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Longhanks 3y ago

> What is Mozilla without Firefox? De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy.

chimeracoder 3y ago
> De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy. If you think that's the case, then Google is clearly failing at that goal, since they've aggressively taken browser share directly from Firefox users to the point where Firefox may no longer be supported by government services.

kramerger 3y ago

> project was taken over by the linux foundation Why? What is role of Linux Foundation anyway? (Beside spending members tons of spam and completely ignore GDPR?)

fabrice_d 3y ago
Their role is mostly being a fiscal host to receive donations. Servo moved to the Linux Foundation Europe recently (https://servo.org/slides/2023-04-25-servo-and-linux-foundation-europe/ https://servo.org/slides/2023-04-25-servo-and-linux-foundati...), which should make it easier to receive grants from EU programs - this is a good thing!