Servo was supposed to be Firefox's future. Now it's an independent effort to make a fast and secure web browser engine.

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Servo is an experimental web browser engine built entirely in Rust, designed for multi-threaded performance and memory safety. Originally developed by Mozilla as Firefox's potential future, the project was transferred to the Linux Foundation after Mozilla layoffs in 2020. While still in development with rendering bugs on many sites, Servo shows promise as an embeddable alternative to Chromium-based engines. The engine aims to break the current browser monoculture dominated by Chrome/Chromium derivatives.

I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust