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First of all, congratulations on a huge milestone for the whole team.

As I understand it, this is shipping with WebRender enabled, right? How far out is WebRender 2 from making it into the nightly?

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Yes, this is using WebRender by default. The WebRender 2/WebRender Next branch can render most content just fine at this point, but we went with the mainline branch for the initial nightlies, as it's more mature and stable.

Could you give a quick explanation (or link to one!) on the difference as a casual observer? Is WebRender like WebKit ?

Here's a talk I gave on it: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/

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