Ok, so this is very early stage but cool: #Verso is...

Ok, so this is very early stage but cool:

#Verso is a project to build a full "#FOSS forever" web browser based on #Rust and #Servo rather than #Chromium/#Gecko. Even the interface is rendered with Servo.

https://github.com/versotile-org/verso

Currently there's 23 contributors and a non profit forming to oversee it. There are also nightly releases for testing (remember the "very early stage" bit though!).

Here's their initial launch video (tech starts about 1/2 way through):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cqFfpeMGYk4?t=887

Like 3 September at 7:46 | Open on social.tchncs.de

6 comments

shipwreckt

@Blort

Interesting, I don't know rust but I am interested in this project! Thank you for making me aware of it.

3 September at 7:49 | Open on mastodon.online

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@shipwreckt

You're welcome! I'd love to see some #FOSS #Servo based web browser catch on and do to Chrome what Firefox once did to Internet Explorer.

Who knows... maybe this could be The One? 🤞

I may see if they need any design help, myself...

3 September at 7:51 | Open on social.tchncs.de

shipwreckt

@Blort

Never know man :D

I will still be using librewolf for the time being but if this develops futher I'd probably use it :)

But I do hope it comes far >:] one big thing that would help it is if it is easy to emped in web apps like signal desktop and such :)

3 September at 7:54 | Open on mastodon.online

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@shipwreckt

Well, from what I've heard, embedding has kind of been the main use case servo has been targeting, so that seems quite possible.

3 September at 7:56 | Open on social.tchncs.de

shipwreckt

@Blort

Very good >:]

I don't like how much of a monopoly chrome has in embedding because they legit just control the market and well I reallt dislike that 😔

3 September at 8:06 | Open on mastodon.online

Neiman

@Blort I saw it recently but didn't manage to compile and get it running. However, I also didn't put much effort into solving it and it's completely legitimate at such a stage.

I love it! Hope it will catch on.

3 September at 8:58 | Open on mastodon.social