Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67109

    Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser

    Phoronix: 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...

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  • Quackdoc
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2020
    • 4978

    #2
    no where close to being ready for trying yet, but it is a nice UI. for those wanting to follow servo, keep testing using servo itself.

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    • satadru
      Junior Member
      • Aug 2020
      • 22

      #3
      Would love to see if servo can replace the chromium portion of the electron framework at some point...

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      • uid313
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 6914

        #4
        Originally posted by satadru View Post
        Would love to see if servo can replace the chromium portion of the electron framework at some point...
        Yeah, and Tauri which is like Electron but with a Rust backend instead of a JavaScript backend.

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        • alexleduc
          Junior Member
          • Feb 2024
          • 8

          #5
          I wish I could use a browser engine in a desktop widget in plasma, and have an option to set background color alpha transparency so that the desktop is visible

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          • Ironmask
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2019
            • 828

            #6
            Originally posted by satadru View Post
            Would love to see if servo can replace the chromium portion of the electron framework at some point...
            As far as I can tell, that's essentially one of the express goals of Servo. I don't think the Servo project themselves are too concerned with being a mainstream browser (at least at the immediate moment, ergo the Verso project existing), but they certainly want to be everywhere else a browser is.

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            • Errinwright
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2023
              • 177

              #7
              The future looks relatively bright between LadyBird and Verso. Firefox and their shoddy woke CEOs/Management has made supporting the project moot.

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              • ahrs
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2021
                • 550

                #8
                It makes me really happy to see that this still hasn't been abandoned. Making an independent web browser (i.e not just a Chrome skin like most of them are nowadays) is a huge undertaking and I'll be honest, I did not have much high hopes when it was announced that Mozilla was abandoning their support and the Linux Foundation were taking it on.

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                • LockedPotato
                  Junior Member
                  • Dec 2022
                  • 47

                  #9
                  When this is ready... I hope KDE replaces their fork of Chromium with this so I can use a Linux first browser with a Qt UI. Konqueror with webkit was the GOAT back in the day. QtWebEngine (their Chromium fork) is so bad. It's slow as balls and always way behind the latest Chromium version.

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                  • Estranged1906
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2022
                    • 283

                    #10
                    I tried Verso and Ladybird and to my surprise Ladybird seems to be a bit better at displaying websites despite having the younger engine.

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