Quantum: At last, Mozilla refreshes the browser engine

To ίδρυμα Mozilla φέρεται να αναπτύσσει αυτή τη στιγμή ένα νέο browser engine που ονομάζεται Quantum. Ο νέος κινητήρας του browser θα πάρει μέρη από το project Servo για να δημιουργήσει ένα νέο πυρήνα για τον browser , as David Bryant, head of Mozilla's Platform Engineering, revealed yesterday.

The new engine will replace the ancient Gecko, the engine that has been used for many years by Firefox. Bryant reported that Mozilla hopes to complete the Quantum transfer until the end of 2017.quantum

The first versions of Qantum will be based largely on from Servo, a browsing engine that Mozilla has been developing for the past few years.

The Servo browser engine is written in Rust, a programming language created by Mozilla also in recent years. Bryant reported that Quantum would use Rust extensively on the basis of his code.

So in the coming year, Mozilla will start slowly adding to Gecko components from the Servo project in each new , while removing the ancient Gecko code, leaving the Quantum engine in place.

The reason why change is necessary is that Gecko was developed at a time when computers were running with single-core processors.

Meanwhile, most computers as well as the phones now run on multi-core architectures, and use powerful GPU cards that allow better performance and better graphics.

Bryant reported that Quantum will develop with these developments in mind, and will bring better performances while surfing the web, and real-time interactions.

He also mentions that a change to the Rust code will also improve the overall of the browser. The Mozilla Foundation started using the first components written in Rust since Firefox 48.

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