<s>
Servo	B-Application
is	O
an	O
experimental	O
browser	B-Protocol
engine	I-Protocol
designed	O
to	O
take	O
advantage	O
of	O
the	O
memory	B-Application
safety	I-Application
properties	O
and	O
concurrency	B-Operating_System
features	O
of	O
the	O
Rust	B-Application
programming	I-Application
language	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
seeks	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
highly	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
environment	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
rendering	O
,	O
layout	O
,	O
HTML	B-Language
parsing	O
,	O
image	O
decoding	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
engine	O
components	O
are	O
handled	O
by	O
fine-grained	O
,	O
isolated	O
tasks	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
makes	O
use	O
of	O
GPU	B-Architecture
acceleration	O
to	O
render	O
web	O
pages	O
quickly	O
and	O
smoothly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Servo	B-Application
has	O
always	O
been	O
a	O
research	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
included	O
the	O
Quantum	O
project	O
,	O
when	O
portions	O
of	O
Servo	B-Application
were	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
Gecko	B-Language
engine	I-Language
of	O
Firefox	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
Mozilla	O
laid	O
off	O
all	O
Servo	B-Application
developers	O
in	O
2020	O
,	O
governance	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
transferred	O
to	O
the	B-Operating_System
Linux	I-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
work	O
officially	O
continues	O
at	O
the	O
same	O
GitHub	B-Application
repository	O
with	O
the	O
project	O
itself	O
entirely	O
volunteer	O
driven	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
of	O
Servo	B-Application
began	O
at	O
the	O
Mozilla	O
Corporation	O
in	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
was	O
named	O
after	O
Tom	O
Servo	B-Application
,	O
a	O
robot	O
from	O
the	O
television	O
show	O
Mystery	O
Science	O
Theater	O
3000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
,	O
Mozilla	O
announced	O
that	O
Samsung	B-Application
was	O
collaborating	O
on	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Samsung	B-Application
's	O
main	O
contribution	O
was	O
porting	O
Servo	B-Application
to	O
Android	B-Application
and	O
ARM	B-Architecture
processors	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Samsung	B-Application
developer	O
also	O
attempted	O
to	O
re-implement	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
Embedded	I-Language
Framework	I-Language
API	O
in	O
Servo	B-Application
,	O
but	O
it	O
never	O
reached	O
fruition	O
and	O
the	O
code	O
was	O
eventually	O
removed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acid2	O
test	O
was	O
passed	O
in	O
2014	O
,	O
and	O
Servo	B-Application
could	O
render	O
some	O
websites	O
faster	O
than	O
the	O
Gecko	B-Language
engine	I-Language
of	O
Firefox	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
same	O
year	O
,	O
Mozilla	O
began	O
the	O
Quantum	O
project	O
,	O
which	O
incorporated	O
stable	O
portions	O
of	O
Servo	B-Application
into	O
Gecko	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Servo	B-Application
was	O
the	O
engine	O
of	O
two	O
augmented	B-General_Concept
reality	I-General_Concept
browsers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
was	O
for	O
a	O
Magic	B-General_Concept
Leap	I-General_Concept
headset	O
in	O
2018	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Then	O
the	O
Firefox	B-Application
Reality	O
browser	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2020	O
,	O
Mozilla	O
laid	O
off	O
many	O
employees	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
Servo	B-Application
team	O
,	O
to	O
"	O
adapt	O
its	O
finances	O
to	O
a	O
post-COVID-19	O
world	O
and	O
re-focus	O
the	O
organization	O
on	O
new	O
commercial	O
services	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Governance	O
of	O
the	O
Servo	B-Application
project	O
was	O
thus	O
transferred	O
to	O
the	B-Operating_System
Linux	I-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2023	O
,	O
the	O
Servo	B-Application
project	O
announced	O
that	O
new	O
external	O
funding	O
had	O
enabled	O
a	O
team	O
of	O
developers	O
to	O
reactivate	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
roadmap	O
focused	O
on	O
selecting	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
existing	O
layout	B-Protocol
engines	I-Protocol
for	O
further	O
development	O
,	O
followed	O
by	O
working	O
towards	O
basic	O
CSS2	O
conformance	O
.	O
</s>
