Samsung and Mozilla have come up together to build a new web browser called "Servo", that will take better advantage of ARM architecture,multicore processors on the phones, leading to better HTML5 apps and browsing itself.
The new browser will be called, Servo and will be written in Rust, a relatively new programming language that is being developed by Mozilla. Rust is Mozilla's new programming language. This language in itself is in early stages of development. Its version 0.6 was also released on Wednesday.. Together, Mozilla and Samsung are bringing both Rust and Servo to Android and the ARM architecture.
Mozilla's Chief Technical Officer, Brendan Eichneed
Noted that both the companies feel the need "to be prepared to take advantage of tomorrow's faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures. That's why we've recently begun collaborating with Samsung on an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo."He added that the browser based on Servo will run "on modern hardware."
This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilise the performance of tomorrow's massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web," he further said on the post.
Current browsers are not optimised to use multi core processors and therefore can't take advantage of advanced hardware that is available in today's smartphones and tablets. This browser is all the more important as people are talking about HTML5 based web applications getting the same ability as native apps (that you download on your phone or is already present). And for that to happen, you need to take full advantage of the hardware of the phone which this new browser will bring.