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Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by chubs on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:01PM (#31200517)
Super exciting, congrats on the new release, it's been so long since the last release!

One question I have is: Is there any plan or prioritisation to get Firefox running on Redox? Totally understand if that's way down the line of prerequisites of course :)

Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by jackpot51 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:04PM (#31200545)
The next priorities will be to make the image installable, and to improve how rustc runs on Redox (for self-hosting). After that, it will be easier to develop on Redox OS and work on porting larger pieces of software like Firefox.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by hbbio on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:15PM (#31200613)
Why not Servo?
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by dralley on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:57PM (#31200863)
Servo never made it to a place where it could consistently render most websites correctly. People underestimate the amount of work required to get something like that production ready by several orders of magnitude.
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by jackpot51 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:27PM (#31200703)
I'd love to port Servo, but the first thing people would ask after doing that, is probably when is Firefox going to be ported ;-)
Re:Redox OS 0.7.0 by timschmidt on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:32PM (#31342276)
I'll cast another vote for Servo. Serenity has their own native browser: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...