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Mozilla’s Project Quantum is a next-gen rendering engine for Firefox

The makers of the Firefox web browser have announced a plan to replace the browser’s Gecko rendering engine with a next-gen version called Quantum. The new engine is optimized to take advantage of modern smartphone and PC hardware including multi-core CPUs and powerful graphics cards. The idea is to use parallel processing to do more […]

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Mozilla launches nightly builds of Servo web rendering engine

More than three years after announcing plans to launch a new web rendering engine, Mozilla has released the first nightly builds of Servo. The idea was to build a new, high-performance rendering engine using the latest tools and features. While Servo isn’t ready to replace the Gecko rendering engine used in Mozilla’s Firefox web browser yet, […]

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Mozilla, Samsung working on next-gen browser tech for multi-core processors

Firefox maker Mozilla has announced it’s working with Samsung on a new web browser engine called Servo. Right now the Firefox browser uses a rendering engine called Gecko to load web content on your PC, phone or tablet. But Servo is designed to take better advantage of modern hardware. Servo will be designed from the […]