There's hope tho. In Mozilla's earlier days, they jettisoned...

There's hope tho.

In Mozilla's earlier days, they jettisoned a totally new web browser project called Servo. It's sort of a ground-up effort to build a browser using the latest safety tech, like the Rust programming language.

https://servo.org

And the best part is, Servo is totally independent from Mozilla now and they have * independent funding * !

Meaning, Google isn't bankrolling Servo as anti-trust insurance (*cough* Firefox *cough*), so there's a chance it might actually take a real stance against adtech on the web.

Servo is faaaar from ready for general use yet, but it's picking up development speed. Definitely an option to keep an eye on for the future. :blobcatthumbsup:

Like 12 July at 20:27 | Open on gladtech.social

20 comments

keithzg

@cuchaz@gladtech.social And with the development history of Gecko's attempts at becoming portable and embeddable into other applications and web browsers, Servo may overtake it for usability from a development perspective sooner rather than later :cat-tears-of-joy:

12 July at 20:53 | Open on slop.social

funnymonkey

@cuchaz This looks really interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

And yeah - not loving the new "feature" in Firefox.

12 July at 21:57 | Open on freeradical.zone

sparrows

@cuchaz does it have a new source of funding? we heard that the big grant it got a year or two ago had run out

12 July at 22:57 | Open on social.translunar.academy

🧙‍♀️ Klara! 🎃

@cuchaz Also, Ladybird just gained quite a few full time developers IIRC.

12 July at 23:01 | Open on im-in.space

J. "Henry" Waugh

@boo_ and may or may not have lost them again due to drama (which I won't get into)

12 July at 23:06 | Open on chaos.social

Hadley T. Canine 🏳️‍⚧️

@boo_ In case you missed the most recent drama with them:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

13 July at 6:26 | Open on plush.city

Dr Ro Smith

@hadley @boo_ Yeah, I was gonna say, this is not a great alternative.

13 July at 9:19 | Open on wandering.shop

Rich Felker

@boo_ @cuchaz It's a dead end project due to developer having ideology in conflict with interests of users.

13 July at 11:20 | Open on hachyderm.io

Bø!rge

@cuchaz They're also on the fediverse: @servo

12 July at 23:03 | Open on tutoteket.no

Albi :furry_pride: :neurodiversity: 🇵🇱 :verified:

@cuchaz Ladybird browser has forked out of SerenityOS and is now aiming to be a completely independent browser.
https://ladybird.org/

12 July at 23:15 | Open on furry.engineer

🜏 Osric Dog 🜏

@Albi@furry.engineer @cuchaz@gladtech.social I thought that the Ladybird dev crew were anti-trans & anti-pronouns ? ?

13 July at 4:34 | Open on terberlo.dog

FantasmitaAsex :heart_ace:

@Albi @cuchaz but the man behind it, it's a misogynist and transphobe

13 July at 6:22 | Open on todon.eu

BasieP

@FantasmitaAsex @Albi @cuchaz #care

13 July at 9:34 | Open on fosstodon.org

Risto

@cuchaz а что вы думаете о браузере @Vivaldi от бывших сотрудников #Opera? Мне его, в своё время порекомендовали, так как он принадлежит закрытой компании, не привлекающей стороннее финансирование.

К тому же, @servo пока не имеет мобильной версии, а в современном мире она нужна даже больше, чем версия на ПК.

13 July at 2:42 | Open on mastodon.ml

RaymondPierreL3

@cuchaz unchecked, thank you for the heads up.

13 July at 5:16 | Open on aus.social

cha

@cuchaz the task of implementing a web browser sound sooo hard. I would reimplements Postgresql from scratch with better perf before finishing writing the architecture design of the stuff.

Kudo to those projects but I would not bet on the success!

13 July at 6:39 | Open on social.sciences.re