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Re:Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:11PM (#21665503)
I was curious, did some research. They do mention Servo in some places[0][1]. They also have their own white papers[2][3], & blog posts outlining their approach, things like how to make borders with triangles[4]. Fun stuff!

Quote: Back in 2012, Mozilla’s Servo project had started hitting headlines about multithreaded, parallel algorithms, and we decided to see if we could do similar, initially targeting our historic market of STBs[0]

Quote: Some of our early thinking was shaped by the parallel web page layout research done by Meyerovich & Bodík. That research also influenced the Servo project which was started by the Mozilla foundation around the same time that we started developing our multithreaded browser.[1]

[0]: https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/svg-browser-to-html-browser/

[1]: https://www.ekioh.com/blog/developing-a-faster-browser-engin...

[2]: https://www.ekioh.com/wp-content/uploads/Designing-a-Browser...

[3]: https://www.ekioh.com/wp-content/uploads/An-Optimal-Browser-...

[4]: https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/gpu-rendering/

Re:Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:00PM (#21665433)
Well, I think the argument was more about Webkit, then Chrome itself. Even flow here does not use a JS engine written from scratch - they use SpiderMonkey.

PS: As a webkit-based Chrome alternative, Brave browser does really well.