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Not really from the grounds up as it uses WebKit.

Used it very shorty on a mac, but as it really is very similar to safari there is little to no reason to use it.

On a linux maybe, but i think i will stay on firefox until servo is usable. (Which is actually being made from the grounds up)

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Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.

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- zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Falkon stopped useing QTWebKit a few years ago. Now it’s just an other Chromium-based browser.
  
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  - Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.
    
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- Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Orion supports chrome and Firefox plugins
  
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  - Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Really, that’s actually interesting.
    
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20dogs@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not sure Servo will ever be usable. Is it still in active development?

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- vogi@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It is. After development broke down in 2022 development more active than it ever was. https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/ I have a binary on my machine and use it for light browsing every now and then just to check in how things are going. Its “usable” for that but would not use it for banking even if it worked.
  
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coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Servo was developed by Mozilla between 2012 and 2020. In 2020 they layed off the people who were working on it and transferred to the Linux foundation. Servo was partially integrated into gecko as part of the Quantum project.

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- LPThinker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Servo has been picked back up by a community of devs outside of Mozilla (currently housed in the Linux Foundation Europe) and has been gaining momentum since 2023, to the point it seems to be moving faster now than when Mozilla was funding it.
  
  servo.org/about/
  
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