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by lucideer 2539 days ago
Servo is an experimental browser project to explore ideas/techniques: it's never been intended to be a replacement for/embedded into Firefox.

What was planned and is happening is that a lot of the exploratory work happening on Servo is being integrated into Firefox in parallel. WebRender is one example of this work: it's (effectively) a Servo component that is now in Firefox.

Another example of the above is Stylo/QuantumCSS, Servo's CSS component. This post on Stylo/QuantumCSS gives a good early insight into the overall project to bring these components to Firefox https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

> many are jumping to Chromium instead of Gecko. What's the plan there? Is Chromium better/easier to embed? Will I be able to embed Servo at some point?

- Chromium is much easier to embed than Gecko

- Servo can be embedded now (and uses the same/a similar system to Chromium), but as mentioned above, Servo as a whole isn't stable.

- Making Gecko/Firefox easy to embed would be great, but at this stage I think this is largely a matter of focus, resources, priorities.

- On a related note, there is the GeckoView[0] which is a project to build an easily-embeddable Firefox for Android

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview