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25 Years of Dillo

years of DilloWritten on 2024-12-15 by Rodrigo Arias Mallo Back in 1999, a group of developers lead by Jorge Arellano Cid forked the Gzilla/Armadillo code originally developed by Raph Levien, and began working on what is now known as the Dillo web browser. Today, as of December of 2024, Dillo is 25 years old! During this long journey, the project has seen a lot of changes and has stalled several times, but it managed to survive to this day.

This work would later derive in the Concomitant Control Chain (CCC), the mechanism that Dillo still uses today to track multiple connections and among its internal modules. Sebastian did an excellent work documenting the new dillo widget engine (just run doxygen inside DW tree). Since then, the development quickly stalled until in 2019 Jorge sent his last email recorded by the mailing list, recommending a user to simply use the current version of the repository, rather than waiting for the 3.1 release:

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