As the project progressed, multiple significant revisions to Servo were released, and the Verso browser was unable to keep pace with these updates due to limited manpower and funding. Therefore, we will be archiving the repository for now and look forward to a future opportunity to revitalize the project and continue contributing to the Servo ecosystem. [0]
They never did afaict. Eventually smartphones became ubiquitous and I think most S. Koreans bank on their phones using apps. As for those who bank on computer, I dont know what happened when Active-X was deprecated. It was a poor decision by the S. Korean govt. to hang their hat on that technology.
They settled down with chromium based browsers. Microsoft was pushing Edge and Naver, the largest Korean search engine company, also developed Whale browser based on chromium.
I have tested version 1.5.421 and it's based on Brave and Chromium 135. Brave is licensed under MPL-2.0, which requires to release the modified source code. However Genspark Browser is closed source, thus violating the MPL.
Next, it requires to sign up for a user account and accept a vague privacy policy, even to use a local LLM.
It has ollama and node.js server with playwright built-in and the bundled web extension is a communication bridge. The local chat UI is at genspark://on-device-free-ai, but it is very limited - it doesn't use agentic features. Bummer.
I wanted to add that some zombie/necro posts are useful outside the context of HN.
For example on retro computing boards it makes me so happy when someone bumps a 5 year old thread to share new details, benchmarks, etc. about some card or motherboard where the ancient thread is first thing that appears in search results.
