Branden Eich, CTO of Mozilla, has recently announced in a post on their official blogsite that Mozilla is working with Samsung to further enhance the mobile browsing through an experimental browser engine called Servo.
Over the past few years, mobile devices have seen significant increase in performance thanks to the development of more powerful processors. And as these devices become more able to handle advanced computing tasks, it’s only rational for companies such as Mozilla to develop a mobile browser that fully maximizes the hardware’s potential.
This explains why, Mozilla decided to collaborate with Samsung to come up with mobile browser designed for ARM-based processors and Android. We think that, Samsung is the perfect fit for this endeavor as Mozilla can leverage the expertise that the South Korean firm has in the realm of Android and mobile processors.
The project that these two companies are working on is Servo – a web browser engine which is based on Mozilla’s in-house programming language called Rust. Servo is still on its early stage of development as Mozilla is still trying to put the last pieces together to make Rust more secure and stable.
Details about these projects such as target release date are scarce at the time of writing. All we know right now is that these two (Rust and Servo) will lay the foundation for a faster, mobile device-friendly browser of the future. It’ll be interesting to see what these two giants will come up with.
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