Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by espadrine on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:49PM (#11176164)

Externally, Firefox has become a brand. Servo is comparable to Gecko or WebKit (it is a browser engine), although it is new, not finished, and uses novel techniques.

What follows is speculation on my part. I am not a Mozilla employee.

Mozilla might, in about five years, offer a new product for desktops which features Servo, SpiderMonkey (the JS engine currently used in Firefox), and an as-of-yet undefined chrome (the UI bits around the rendered page). It may be a mobile product instead, or a product for a different type of hardware, although the current thinking seems to be to target it for desktops.

Whatever that product is, it may still be called Firefox or a derivation of that brand (as Firefox OS was), although it might have a completely new name (it worked for Microsoft Edge, after all).

(Updated for clarity.)

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Re:Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundr... by steveklabnik on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:52PM (#11176198)

  > Mozilla might, in about five years,

Since some of us in this thread work for Mozilla and on Rust/Servo, I would like to point out that this number is your own speculation and nothing official, timeline wise. Nothing the matter with that! Just don't want people to get confused.

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