

On a higher level, however, there are projects that are considered offshoots of open source mainline browsers like Firefox and Chrome that apply their own twists and special sauce, all the while keeping a major bulk of the engine underneath mostly the same. We have browser choices in addition to the standard fare of Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Chrome. With the recent news about Google’s switch to the Blink engine and Mozilla experimenting with a multi-core optimized Firefox engine called Servo, there is quite a bit of change on the horizon for under-the-hood technologies that power the browsers we love. Matt Nawrocki takes a look at an optimized web browser that may not be as optimized as advertised. Review: Pale Moon web browser for Windows
