nixCraft 🐧Dec 16

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices.

Full blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

Show threadBarry RowlingsonDec 16
@nixCraft Really time to find another browser before my encryption keys get hoiked out by a web page with an <ignore-all-previous-instructions> tag.
Show threadStefan RitterDec 16
@geospacedman @nixCraft Many people are waiting for a stable version of Ladybird!
Show threadSjoerd StendahlDec 16

@gideonstar @geospacedman @nixCraft At this point I have more faith in Servo than Ladybird.

Politics aside, Servo is more modular as an engine, and thus more useful for alternative browsers. Also, Servo is build for performance, Ladybird will always be behind here.

Feels a bit like backing Ladybird over Servo makes the same mistake as backing Bluesky over Mastadon. That is, the notion that the problem is purely bad leadership, and not with the monilithic centralized structure itself.

Show threadzetabetaDec 16

@sstendahl @gideonstar @geospacedman @nixCraft
let me put the link:
https://servo.org/

it seems that in development.

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Servo
Show threadparzivalDec 16
@zetabeta @sstendahl @gideonstar @geospacedman @nixCraft do yk if there is a plan for a full browser from them or is it just going to be a framework?
Show threadDaks Dec 17
@parzivalrp2
There was a project (now archived), called Verso: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Verso-Web-Browser-Servo https://servo.org/blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/
@zetabeta @sstendahl @gideonstar @geospacedman @nixCraft
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser

With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project

Show threadDaks 
@parzivalrp2
Also there is another project, Gemini (and it is not that shitty google's slop generator): https://geminiprotocol.net/
@zetabeta @sstendahl @gideonstar @geospacedman @nixCraft
Project Gemini

Dec 17 at 12:29amWeb