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I super excited for any new FF stuff but this one mentions a lot of Windows focused (and some Mobile) - I'm over here on Linux where I've still got loads of pages that just lag. Hoping for some multi-platform JS updated soon-ish.

Side note: anyone know of any meaningful updates to Servo? Is dead? It had so much promise (IMO)

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Servo was never meant to be a full engine replacement for mainline Firefox; whatever Rust code could be implemented/useful for Firefox was ported already.

However, regarding Servo specifically, there are contributions on their GitHub[1] and the stewardship of the project is now under the Linux Foundation[2].

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/commits/master [2] https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/

> Servo was never meant to be a full engine replacement for mainline Firefox

I don't think that's a fair summary of the history. There were multiple points of view on this inside Mozilla, and some (including myself) definitely hoped it would be a full engine replacement.

Servo is mostly dead the team got laid off

Really? Bummer. I hope the community keep a steady pace at development and don't let it die. Having another engine competing with the "titans" of the current web would bring so much benefit (I think and hope so).

The "recent" event[0] with Chrome dev team scared me; they have so much power to change things "at will".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28055160

Servo is not and never will be a competitive browser engine.

Gecko is that engine competing with the titans.

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