I believe you're thinking of this blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

GeckoView is a wrapper around Gecko to make it easy to embed it into applications. I heard it's API is similar to WebView, but it's not a complete drop-in replacement.

They forked Webkit which they named Blink

You can already enable WebRender on Firefox Preview (Fenix). It renders pages allot faster but scrolling feels more sluggish.

Thanks, I'll check that out!

Update: Couldn't find it on the Play Store

I believe you have to pay royalties for Arm while RISC-V is completely open source.

The royalties aren't generally a big deal, being something like 2%. It's other issues, like complexity or startup fees or flat out being unable to get a license.

This. The world would be different, and probably better, if Samsung, Apple and other third parties could make their own x86 processors.

What's the situation regarding this for Mill/VLIW?

VLIW in its pure form is old enough that anybody should be legally able to build an ISA based on that concept.

The Mill folks are heavily into patents for their tech: https://millcomputing.com/patents/. So besides Mill's general feasibility it depends on how they work those patents.

If you want to know for sure if Webrender is enabled you can go to about:config and check the Graphics section. If Compositing is 'Webrender' it's turned on.

all I can see is skia

Firefox, like any other browser on iOS, is based on webkit because Apple doesn't allow other engines. That's why you don't have 'about:config' there.

Webrender (the new renderer maxyme was talking about) will move to gfx-rs later on [1]. That allows the renderer to run on Vulkan, DirectX 11 and 12, Metal and OpenGL.

[1] https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/407

I believe the target was Firefox 59, but they didn't make it.

It only works in Firefox Nightly. The flag exists in Beta and Stable, but since Stylo isn't compiled with these versions the flag doesn't actually do anything.

Are you sure? I thought I saw a FF dev mention right here that the flag is available in stable just a couple days ago.

From what I can tell, Beta 56 has it (but you have to enable it), Nightly 57 has it (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330412 is tracking when it'll be enabled by default), and Stable 55 does not have it at all (although the pref might be there).