Mozilla will soon start previewing its Servo browser

Mozilla wants to show a first version of its new browser this week that runs on its also new render engine Servo. The browser, which bears the name Browser.html, should be faster than most existing browsers.

Mozilla announced that there would be a tech preview in June. Browser.html is developed by Mozilla and Samsung, and the entire browser is made up of html. The organization seems convinced to meet the imposed deadline of June, according to a blog post on the Servo blog. That means the preview should be online sometime in the next few days.

The programming language behind the render engine Servo was developed by Mozilla itself and is called Rust. Servo should replace the Gecko render engine that dates back to 1997 and which Netscape developed at the time. For example, Firefox uses Gecko.

Before the alpha release can be released, many bugs had to be addressed. For example, sites like GitHub, DuckDuckGo, Hacker News and Reddit had to work properly. In the meantime, one of the developers drastically reduced page load times. Pages now load up to 25 percent faster than previous versions of Servo, according to the discussion forum.