This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 • Hacker News Board

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by exploraz » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 11:52 AM UTC

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025
ladybird.org

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by garganzol » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

I always wonder why there are no download links. Alpha, beta, something at least.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by _diyar » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:23 PM UTC

garganzol wrote: post #2

I always wonder why there are no download links. Alpha, beta, something at least.

Its pre alpha, you can build it from source.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by bovermyer » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:26 PM UTC

Good progress this month! Good to see it running on Windows now, even if I don't use Windows myself anymore. That'll help boost adoption once it releases.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by KaiMagnus » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:28 PM UTC

I’m impressed how well Google maps works already.

Seems though as if the WPT score is not super meaningful in measuring actual usability. The growth of passed tests seems suspiciously uniform across browsers, so I guess it has more to do with new passing tests being added and less with failing tests that got fixed.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by zaruvi » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:35 PM UTC

KaiMagnus wrote: post #5

I’m impressed how well Google maps works already. Seems though as if the WPT score is not super meaningful in measuring actual usability. The growth of passed tests seems suspiciously uniform across browsers, so I guess it has more to do with new passing tests being added and less with failing tests that got fixed.

>We’ve continued to make solid progress on WPT this month. There has been a significant increase in passing subtests, with 111,431 new passing subtests bringing our total to 1,964,649. The majority of this increase comes from a large update to the test suite itself, with 100,751 subtests being added - mainly due to the Wasm core tests being updated to Wasm 3.0.

They fixed ~10k tests, but indeed this month is a bit of an exception as there were lots of new tests added.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by haunter » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

garganzol wrote: post #2

I always wonder why there are no download links. Alpha, beta, something at least.

I use these on Mac https://sizeof.cat/project/ladybird-builds/

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by lkramer » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

_diyar wrote: post #3

garganzol wrote: post #2

I always wonder why there are no download links. Alpha, beta, something at least.

Its pre alpha, you can build it from source.

Yeah, it's quite easy to do from a normal laptop. The instructions are very clear and straightforward. Have played around with it a few times.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by anthk » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:44 PM UTC

This will be what Otter Browser failed to do in order to create a widely used browser written in QT after Konqueror under KDE3 days. And, well, the same with Falkon/Qupzilla.

Ladybird might be the next Opera but without reusing the Blink engine making it a Chromium clone. And, OFC, fully libre.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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Post by stephen_g » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

garganzol wrote: post #2

I always wonder why there are no download links. Alpha, beta, something at least.

Alpha is supposed to come out next year. Until then they don’t want to offer downloads so people who don’t understand software development don’t download highly unstable pre-alpha software and judge it based on that. Those kind of first impressions can stick.