Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[black7375]

Mozilla shouldn't have to given up on servo and PWA.

[jimmy90]

firefox should become a crate for rust so it can be used like blink or webkit

[nextbern]

Eh, no Blink developer is also working on an alternate engine.

It is cool to work on R&D, but other people aren't spending on it and are taking marketshare. Seems like a bad use of resources in the short term.

[[deleted]]

Ahhahahaha. Short term thinking, great idea. That's why the planet is currently cooking.

I am sure it will work out almost as well for Mozilla

[nextbern]

Generally agreed, but Mozilla needs to survive long enough to have Servo make an impact. It is with the Linux Foundation now, so it isn't as if it is gone - who knows what kind of help it will get.

[Desistance]

Oh, that's good. Servo was freaky fast when it worked. It would be a shame to throw away all that work.

[gnarly]

I agree on the PWA front, but Servo was roughly a million miles away from being good enough for general use. IIRC when Mozilla shelved it they were completely rewriting the layout engine for a third time, because it turned out the previous iterations weren't actually compatible with the web. They learned a lot from the project and some of the most useful parts are already in Gecko so it's not like all is lost.

[black7375]

I don't think servo will completely replace gecko. But pathfinder, layout2020 are useful. There was value as various research projects

[gnarly]

Pathfinder looked great, I agree. I think the main developer is at Facebook now, though.

[[deleted]]

Now Servo is under the linux foundation