Flow browser passes the Acid tests
This actually looks pretty interesting.They started out as an SVG engine for set-top boxes (embedded devices running on TV's) since browsers at the time weren't fast/light enough for the underpowered chips in set-top boxes. Then when the devices got better chips, they realized perf still wasn't good enough for big 4k screens – and that multicore rendering could help.So they've implemented a full HTML/CSS/JS browser from scratch, all to take advantage of a multicore architecture (today's browsers all render on a single thread) which has enabled (they claim) greater than 4x better framerate during web animations than the stable channels of Chrome/Blink and Safari/Webkit. Oh, and 60% faster layout on a quad-core machine.They also claim "extremely low memory consumption", which would be quite appealing to many HN'ers I think, though that may only be true of their HTML engine and not of the full browser (eg; when using multiple tabs and hungry JS apps).