Mozilla to release alpha version of browser with new engine in June

Mozilla developer Paul Rouget has announced that an alpha version of Browser.html will be released in June. That is a new browser, which is based on the Servo browser engine, which Mozilla and Samsung have been working on for several years.

Before the alpha version can be released this summer, there are still a lot of bugs to be fixed. Rouget wants to make sure that at least GitHub, DuckDuckGo, Hacker News, and Reddit are working properly with the release. There are still several issues with rendering these websites in the Servo engine that need to be resolved.

Browser.html is an experimental browser from Mozilla whose interface itself consists of html. The browser is built on top of the new Servo engine, which is built from the ground up. Servo is to replace Gecko, the browser engine on which Firefox is based, which dates back to 1997.

The new engine will be written in the Rust programming language, a language that Mozilla developed itself with security in mind. Servo will be optimized for modern hardware and should work on both ARM and x86 chips.

Google developer Jake Archibald recently demonstrated the performance of the render engine, which is much faster than the latest versions of Chrome, Safari and Firefox thanks to GPU acceleration.