This Month in Ladybird – August 2026(ladybird.org)
279 points by exploraz 5 days ago | 79 comments
tl;dr: Ladybird's August update brings video playback on Twitch, JavaScript debugging in DevTools, CSS scroll snap, resumable downloads, and full session restore. Major performance work landed via a new incremental style engine, layout result caching, and off-main-thread CSS animations, roughly doubling StyleBench scores and lifting Speedometer numbers significantly. CSS parsing and the painting pipeline were rewritten in Rust, JavaScript value caging was added for security, and site compatibility fixes improved ChatGPT, VS Code, iCloud, Strava, and Outlook. First alpha is still on track for 2026.
HN Discussion:
  • Enthusiasm about Ladybird's progress and eagerness to use it as a daily driver or replace Firefox
  • Skepticism that Ladybird can truly compete with established browsers due to web standards complexity
  • Curiosity and questions about how browser engines are built and the process involved
  • Appreciation for the technical rigor, like parallel engine testing in debug builds
  • ~Concern about specific technical choices like parallel download connections fragmenting files