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The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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[–] MrMcGasion 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Linux Foundation Europe has taken over the rust-based Servo engine that Mozilla started several years ago. It's not ready to replace any other browser yet, but progress has been picking up speed quite a bit the last few months. Could end up being better than a Linux Foundation Firefox fork simply due to the advantage of being a newer codebase with (hopefully) less baggage than Gecko and the added bonus of rust's memory safety.

[–] vikingtons 1 points 2 weeks ago

In was thinking about TLF with servo in mind, though I wasn't aware much progress has been made. Great to hear!