Mozilla & electronic consumer goods giant Samsung are said to have teamed up to develop a new, highly secure Web browser engine dubbed Servo, built on Mozilla’s new “safe systems” programming language called Rust. The engine is aimed at taking advantage of multicore, heterogeneous computing architectures.

A web browser engine is a software component that takes marked up content like  HTML & XML & formatting information such as CSS, XSL, etc & displays the formatted content on the screen.  A layout engine is typically embedded in web browsers, e-mail clients, e-book readers, on-line help systems or other applications that require the displaying of web content.

Meanwhile, Mozilla has also launched Firefox 20, its popular free web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux & Android users. Firefox 20 includes updates like per-window private browsing, new download manager in the browser’s toolbar, ability to close frozen plugins, among others.

Firefox 20 will allow users to enjoy private browsing (Incognito mode on Chrome) without opening a new tab. This will allow users to access multiple web accounts without signing off one or using a different web browser to access it.

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