Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by SkyMarshal on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:20AM (#23445216)

>The Big Slowdown when you had more than 5 tabs open, the accumulation of dead memory, needing me to restart the damn thing every couple of hours or so. The slow Javascript.

Firefox hasn’t been the same Firefox ever since Mozzila replaced the rendering engine with the new Rust-based Servo (https://servo.org/). It’s fast and amazing and handles memory as well (and on my Mac, better) than Chrome/ium.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:33AM (#23445261)

> Firefox hasn’t been the same Firefox ever since Mozzila replaced the rendering engine with the new Rust-based Servo

I don't think that's right; they may have cherry picked some parts, but gecko is not servo.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by emayljames on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:26AM (#23445750)

Servo was specifically created, in Rust, to be the functional replacement of the old Gecko; of which is has been since Quantum.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by AnonC on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:31AM (#23446015)

I think the GP’s point is that Firefox still uses Gecko and some parts of Servo, which is true. Servo is not a complete engine yet and it’s not fully merged into Firefox yet.

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