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Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
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.

4 October 2024 - Servo Browser - 15 Comments
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support

The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, thanks to a useful Outreachy project, the code has been updated and now working nicely with the newer Devtools code.

23 September 2024 - Servo Devtools - 19 Comments
Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It
Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It

Mozilla is interested in a Rust-written JPEG-XL image decoder for its memory safety characteristics compared to the existing C++ code they rely on for JPEG-XL image support in Firefox. While Google previously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium, it may be Google that comes to the rescue and writes a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that can then be shipped by Firefox.

4 September 2024 - Rust JPEG-XL Decoder Requested - 71 Comments
Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation
Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation

The Mozilla Ocho group leads "innovation and experiments" at Mozilla. Following all of their work on Llamafile for easily distributing large language models as a single file that can be easily executed across different hardware/software, their newest effort is Whisperfile for easy audio-to-text translations.

22 August 2024 - Whisperfile - 12 Comments
Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server
Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server

Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features.

24 June 2024 - Llamafile 0.8.7 - 6 Comments
Mozilla's Llamafile 0.8.2 Scores Big With New AVX2 Performance Optimizations
Mozilla's Llamafile 0.8.2 Scores Big With New AVX2 Performance Optimizations

One of the interesting innovations out of Mozilla Ocho as the browser company's innovation and experiments group is Llamafile, a easy way to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) from a single file. Out this evening is Llamafile 0.8.2 is the newest release with an updated Llama.cpp and most excitingly are some AVX2 performance optimizations.

9 May 2024 - AVX2 Optimizations - 58 Comments
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code

Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase.

14 February 2024 - Thunderbird + Rust - 25 Comments
Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus
Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus

Mozilla's latest non-browser foray and attempt at generating additional revenue is Mozilla Monitor Plus, what formerly was known as the free service Firefox Monitor for monitoring of exposed personal information such as email addresses as part of security breaches to various web services.

6 February 2024 - Mozilla Monitor Plus - 33 Comments
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed... Firefox will try to move forward with stable releases where Wayland will ship by default!

13 November 2023 - WAYLAND BY DEFAULT - 46 Comments
Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October
Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October

The Servo open-source web browser engine continues progressing as a community project under the leadership of Linux Foundation Europe. Over the course of October more features were implemented and additional fixes merged.

26 October 2023 - Servo - 31 Comments
Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon
Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But -- at long last -- that might finally change soon.

13 October 2023 - Firefox Wayland - 22 Comments
Servo Web Engine Publishes Its 2023 Roadmap
Servo Web Engine Publishes Its 2023 Roadmap

Back in 2020 Mozilla moved Servo to the Linux Foundation for the Rust-written web engine after it laid off the Servo developers. Servo development is now community/volunteer-driven and a road-map was published yesterday outlining some of their hopes for this calendar year.

4 February 2023 - Servo 2023 Roadmap - 19 Comments
Mozilla Comes Out Neutral On JPEG-XL Image Format Support
Mozilla Comes Out Neutral On JPEG-XL Image Format Support

While JPEG-XL image support has been available opt-in within Firefox Nightly builds for testing, Mozilla has finally weighed in on the JPEG-XL debate and has come out "neutral" on the matter for this modern raster image file format.

31 January 2023 - Mozilla Thoughts On JPEG-XL - 112 Comments

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