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As much as I like Firefox. It is now on a cross road.

For debugging development purposes I am keeping a version now for older dev plugins that never got a proper replacement, and aren't compatible with the newer API and newer will be (because the API is so much less powerful, good for noobs / bad for power user).

And I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete. I am thinking about a Vivaldi browser like HTML5 based UI based on Servo web engine, instead of blink - that would be the ideal next-gen Firefox reboot! (Firefox/Firebird/forgotthename was initially a leaner fork of the "bloated" MozillaSuite, in the meantime Firefox got so much more bloated than the still maintained MozillaSuite (now called SeaMonkey, based on recent gecko engine)).

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> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete

Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today!

http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...

Quantum Compositor is just a separate process for GPU stuff. It isn't ported from Servo.

It's the same name as the Servo porting project. I could see that creating the separate process is a first step and involves no Servo code as of yet, but how do you know either way?

mccr8 is a Mozilla engineer.

It's literally ported from Servo.

> The goal of the Quantum Render project is to take the WebRender compositor in Servo and embed it in Firefox

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render

That's Quantum Render, not Quantum Compositor.

The meaning of "Quantum" is a bit confusing. I thought it was only Servo ports, but after I read your post I looked around and found this. I guess it's any improvement to Gecko?

"Quantum has a number of components, including several adopted from the Servo project."

https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a...

Quantum is the umbrella, if you will, under which a bunch of performance focused subprojects are being developed. Some of them (Quantum Render, Quantum CSS) are importing Servo components (WebRender and Stylo, respectively), while others (Quantum DOM, Quantum Compositor, Quantum Flow) are serious surgery on existing Gecko components.

My Pale Moon (Linux) clocks in at around 200Mb less than latest Firefox. It's faster, too. And runs the addons I want it to run. Not going back.

How well is Pale Moon patching disclosed Firefox vulnerabilities?

Probably not as well as a whole, large, dedicated corporation-like setup a la Mozilla.

On the other hand, it's not moving absurdly fast and breaking things as a matter of policy like recent Firefox is.

With sensible browsing habits and a very conservative use of js, I'm confident enough, day to day.

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