Mozilla releases first Nightly build of Servo, its next-generation browser engine

[Chiefcrowe]

http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/01/m...d-of-servo-its-next-generation-browser-engine

 

[VirtualLarry]

A new browser engine? With all new bugs and exploits? No thanks. Old code is good code.

Why the need to change? Will the new one be faster on my slow Intel Celeron N3050 ("Cherry Trail" dual-core), with 2GB of RAM for the overall system?

Edit: Designed for multi-core? More efficient? Safer programming language? Ok, I guess I'm all for it.

Maybe it will run better on my J1900 mini-PCs. (Intel Celeron J1900, "Bay Trail" quad-core, 2.05Ghz)

 

[ninaholic37]

I downloaded the Linux Nightly from here:
https://nightly.mozilla.org/

Then remembered that they ditched gtk2 in Firefox 46.

 

[mikeymikec]

A new browser engine? With all new bugs and exploits? No thanks. Old code is good code.

Not sure I agree with you there. A new engine means new bugs. An old engine means old, undiscovered bugs that have evaded Mozilla / white hats.

Hopefully the new engine is written by people who have bugfixed old engines for some time so we don't end up with a situation like in the car industry where apparently complete newbies write software that can be attacked through open communications systems, etc.

 

[coffeemonster]

looking forward to trying this out

 

[TheRyuu]

Not sure I agree with you there. A new engine means new bugs. An old engine means old, undiscovered bugs that have evaded Mozilla / white hats.

Well another thing to keep in mind is that it's not like the old one was considered well written with security in mind. His point isn't entirely wrong but in this case were the new one is being written in Rust it's not really the case.

Hopefully the new engine is written by people who have bugfixed old engines for some time so we don't end up with a situation like in the car industry where apparently complete newbies write software that can be attacked through open communications systems, etc.

The new one is written in Rust which is considered to be safer than C++ since it turns many of the previously exploitable issues into compiler or runtime errors through implementation and stricter type checking among other things.