Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is now available that outlines recent improvements to this open-source browser layout engine...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Browser-September-2024

[StarterX4]

It would be funny if there was a Servo-based browser that would outperform the Firefox in the future, and gain more users.

[uid313]

It would be funny if there was a Servo-based browser that would outperform the Firefox in the future, and gain more users.

Servo right now have very little features and very poor web standard compliance. It is not yet usable as a web browser.

[ahrs]

It would be funny if there was a Servo-based browser that would outperform the Firefox in the future, and gain more users.

The fact they have Android Downloads is exciting but they'd have to have extension support to win me over. Firefox is the only browser with full extension support on Android. I'm not sure how much of that belongs in the engine, and how much of that belongs in the browser though. This would probably be a long-term goal when a Servo based browser is actually usable as more than a tech demo.

[NateHubbard]

The fact they have Android Downloads is exciting but they'd have to have extension support to win me over.

I don't disagree, but having actually downloaded it and tried it, I'd like to see it actually working first.

[Vistaus]

The fact they have Android Downloads is exciting but they'd have to have extension support to win me over. Firefox is the only browser with full extension support on Android. I'm not sure how much of that belongs in the engine, and how much of that belongs in the browser though. This would probably be a long-term goal when a Servo based browser is actually usable as more than a tech demo.

The only browser with full extension support on Android? Not really. Or do you mean the only Gecko (or whatever Firefox uses these days) browser? In that case, you might be right.

[Vistaus]

Servo right now have very little features and very poor web standard compliance. It is not yet usable as a web browser.

That's why he said "in the future".

[rmfx]

I wish they make their own rust rewrite of quickjs instead of spidermonkey to make it even lighter and safer.

[ahrs]

The only browser with full extension support on Android? Not really. Or do you mean the only Gecko (or whatever Firefox uses these days) browser? In that case, you might be right.

What other browsers support web extensions? Certainly the Chromium based browsers don't. I know some have built-in adblockers, etc, but that's not the same as full extension support like we have on the desktop.

[jindam]

forgot to mention_ android apks
keyword: 64 bit aka aarch64 only