Ladybird is an ongoing project to build an independent web browser from scratch.

It is being developed as part of the SerenityOS/serenity project on GitHub.

There are no downloadable binaries yet, as the project is still very unstable. You can follow the build instructions to build it for yourself.

This page is not fancy because we are focusing on building the browser. :^)

Since Ladybird is part of the SerenityOS project, development is coordinated on the SerenityOS discord server.

  • CarbonScored [any]
    hexbear
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    4 months ago

    To be honest, I think the internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio. Why can I can no longer get a browser that doesn't shove ads in my face and/or track my every move?

    I know this isn't being designed as a browser for everyone. But I'm pleased to see making a web browser isn't an un-enterable area yet.

      • CarbonScored [any]
        hexbear
        1
        4 months ago

        Forces ads in my face via Firefox. Sometimes promotes commercial control of the internet. Is borderline for-profit at this stage with all the moneygrubbing and issues that comes with.

        Don't get me wrong, they're the best of the lot by a long long way, but they're still problematic.

    • @ExLisper@linux.community
      hexbear
      4
      4 months ago

      he internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio.

      No it's not. You have lots and lots of different browsers. Do we need another browser engine? Also not. They all do the same thing so while it's good to have some competition we definitely don't need yet another one.

      • CarbonScored [any]
        hexbear
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        edit-2
        4 months ago

        We essentially have three different browsers, that definitively isn't "lots and lots". Every year they get together and agree on what measures can be foisted upon all users with or without their support. The rest are very little more than reskins of each other.

        • @ExLisper@linux.community
          hexbear
          2
          4 months ago

          Ok, so what do you want your 4th, new browser to do differently? What's so different about it that you can't build it on top of Gecko?

              • CarbonScored [any]
                hexbear
                2
                4 months ago

                No? I've already said what it's about, and I'm not eager to repeat myself 'cause I feel vague meanyness.

                • @ExLisper@linux.community
                  hexbear
                  1
                  4 months ago

                  What you said (if I understand you correctly, you didn't give any examples) boils down to breaking standards established by the current browsers. The standards that web developers and servers universally follow. If you want to build browser that will not follow standards you might just as well render HTML in non-standars ways. Most pages will not work anyway.