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Interesting -- I figured a multiprocess Firefox would only arrive once Servo was finished. Or are these two projects complementary?
by nemo1618 11y ago
Interesting -- I figured a multiprocess Firefox would only arrive once Servo was finished. Or are these two projects complementary?
- mbrubeck 11y agoThe two projects are independent; work on Electrolysis (multi-process Firefox) actually predates Servo. Old versions of mobile Firefox used Electrolysis, for example. But converting desktop Firefox and supporting its whole add-on ecosystem is a huge project, and was also put on hold for a long time.
- Rusky 11y agoThey're completely separate projects- Servo is run by different people and is intended more as a research project. They do overlap in that Firefox is starting to include little bits of Rust for things the the URL parser or image decoders.
- sp332 11y agoServo isn't aiming at replacing Gecko in Firefox, but it is aiming to be production-ready code. The plan is to make it embeddable like webkit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9541138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9541138