I hear it’s the first browser in a long while to come with a new engine. Completely independent and no revenue model. To me that would work well for privacy but I see no mention of privacy as any benefit. In fact I don’t see a privacy policy anywhere !

Is a goal of the browser to be telemetry free ? Should I as a person who cares about privacy be showing any interest?

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    It’s unremarkable and has baggage.

    The Servo browser is where it’s at. It’s written entirely in rust so it has a leg up on stability and security over other browsers. The issue is that they’re not really interested in the most important part, which is things like bookmarks and dark mode. They are laser focussed on the engine and anyone who would use Servo would be fine with a few websites looking broken.

    If Firefox released a Servo-based spin, I’d use that in a heartbeat.

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      Hmm… would be pretty neat if Playwrite could use the Servo engine too. I would start using that instead of the gecko driver, because why not?

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      so it has a leg up on stability and security over other browsers

      No, Rust doesn’t make your code more stable. It can help you making it more secure however.

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        Qute isn’t my kind of browser, so I probably won’t be following you to Qute.

        Firefox suites my workflow basically perfectly. Except that it won’t let me duplicate a tab with a keyboard shortcut (because tabs freeze quite often).