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You guys are hugely on fire. Who would have thought someday a new engine rises in this climate, and then who would have thought it would be a small team, without a trillion dollar giant behind them pouring hundreds of millions into its production? This is truly one of the greatest things I have seen in my lifetime.

Here's a guide to help you get started contributing:

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/Docu...

Here are the latest Web Platform (WPT) tests:

https://wpt.fyi/results/?run_id=6292901677236224

There is a Discord if you want to ask questions:

https://discord.gg/c8JEZkDvtY

Compile it yourself (it takes 15-20 minutes to fully compile) and test it on a website. Compare it to Firefox or Chrome and see what's wrong. Fix it and submit a PR.

how to build Ladybird https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/Docu...

120Hz limit for high refresh rate support seems strange. The most common refresh rate for high refresh rate monitors is 144Hz, and faster refresh rates are available. If you run a 120fps animation on a 144Hz monitor you'll get duplicated frames, which negates a large part of the benefit.

This is such an important project, to keep the big corporations from completely controlling the future of the web.

And it doesn't hurt that Andreas seems to be such a nice, humble guy.

On Twitter, Andreas points out that his Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser on the FUTO conference in Texas earlier in the year, might be the best current introduction to the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YM7pDMLvr4

I wonder if Ladybird will ever become a member of the WHAT-WG steering group. It would be nice to see more / any independent voices on there.

It is so amazing and wholesome to see a huge team of people come together and just collaborate on something they are passionate about and seriously believe in. I'm very hopeful that Ladybird will get to the point where we can use it as a main browser.

If on an Arch based distro, Ladybird is in AUR. Easy to try, compiling now!

The power of one, the power of a mind who can’t take no for an answer to the inner voice.

And don’t lecture me about the many, for the many wouldn’t have started it, they joined the one.

You know the one, cherish him.

Thanks!

How is the ladybird experience at the moment? Coming from FF and basically just need ublock and a handful of extensions that make YT usable

Really really hope these guys get a foothold in the market. I'm a decades long Firefox user but even I have to admit things with Mozilla aren't looking bright so projects like this are the only things that can save us from the chrome clone wars.

For some reason I can't find the RSS feed for the newsletter; anyone that did who could post it here? I can only find the one for the "announcements"—which seem a lot less relevant to follow the progress of the project.

If their blog has an RSS feed, that would be great for people who want to follow their work.

Any news on the usage of Swift?

Why Discord though? Truly independent project, keep big corps away, future of the web at stake here yada yada yet using the most walled garden of walled gardens. If there is no publicly accessible and searchable archive then might as well not exist.

You guys are on fire!

Unbelievable process, this guys are crushing it

The web is UTF-16 ? WTF

How long until it gets abandoned too?