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Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser


With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project

But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo. Verso is Rust-written, centered around Servo, makes use of WebRender for rendering its layout, and various feature work is ongoing. Among the future action items still are multi-window support, multi-process handling, sandboxing on all platforms, and enabling GStreamer multimedia functionality.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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