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Mozilla are winding down their efforts to make Firefox competitive. They are not planning to make a full servo browser anytime soon and they are transfering resources to VR and other things. This is disapointing.

You can't blame them, their user base is in free fall.

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Are you sure? Seems like a lot going on when I look at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

From https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

> Our long-term plan is to:

>

> Incrementally replace components in Firefox with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo

I don't know if they have a date in mind for the delivery of a 100% Rust Firefox, but they're not stopping the initiative.

The page goes on with a list of stuff they planned to add to Servo in 2018, which will eventually go into Firefox.

Edit: fixed the formatting of the quote

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