Firefox

Mozilla's Firefox utilizes the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine and the enhanced Gecko engine. The Gecko engine got some nice improvements when they added parts of their project Servo code base to it to give a nice multithreaded renderer. Mozilla has been at the forefront of the latest web technologies. They were one of the first to implement WebGL and they have been one of the first to implement WebAssembly and the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) standard.

What follows is a fairly technical discussion about shaders and the shader language, OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL). It is recommended that you read on to find out more about this, but for those of you who are lost, it may be helpful to visit the documentation to learn more about ...

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