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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by port11 »

NBPEL wrote: post #24

The hardest part for browser development has always been "artificial" web compatibility, as you know a lot of websites are forcefully blocking specific browser from loading, only allow Chromium to load their websites, that is the reality check for Ladybird, and seriously what stopping new web browsers from being able to compete, same with DRM Widevine, it's REALLY hard to acquire (unobtainiumware) for new browser, ev…

Hmm, I haven’t used a single website in a long time that forces a Chromium-based browser to operate. The only exception I know of is DocuSign requiring a Chrome extension. And, of course, plenty of websites are laggy on Safari.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by monax »

shevy-java wrote: post #46

> It’s inspired by GNOME Web (Epiphany) So basically, it will be useless. How many use epiphany please? That thing has been so extremely ineffective. It's like 1999 (not that everything was bad in 1999). > follows GNOME’s design guidelines: no menubar, a hamburger menu Oh. my. god. So Ladybird worships uselessness now. Also, GTK progressively gets worse and with GTK5 they will (try to) kill of xorg-server too. Some p…

I like the approach of ladybird to provides as many native chrome as possible it gives peoples choice and let the browser feel native in whatever DE they choose to use :)

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by lionkor »

allusernamesare wrote: post #48
sikozu wrote: post #27

Ladybird is coming along so well. I am a long-term Firefox user and I'll definitely be an early adopter of Ladybird when it enters very early alpha and precompiled builds start being released.

It's pretty easy to compile yourself, especially if you ask Claude code to do it for you.

Are you illiterate? There are step by step instructions, it's accessible too.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by muglug »

redeeman wrote: post #63
bitwize wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was either permit DRM, or cut off the web for all sorts of media.

easy choice. also, thats just BS, remember how SOMEHOW the same was said for playback of music on computers, yet somehow a certain now-dead CEO was able to say "fuck you" and it happened anyway?

Not sure if Spotify got that same memo.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by isametry »

teruakohatu wrote: post #67
jurschreuder wrote: post #58

Too bad LadyBird is being translated to LLM generated Rust. It's nice that Rust is so beginner friendly but it would be nicer to have a pure C++ browser for the more experienced developers, to use as a basis for their projects like Chromium is used.

If LLMs allow them to speedrun to an alternative mainstream browser, then full speed ahead. A third runner in this space would make the browser market a lot healthier than the current chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly.

>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly

Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively.

Firefox is at around 3% market share. There’s no “-poly” to Gecko at all.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by hellcow »

tame3902 wrote: post #49
JoRyGu wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How common is this that they would even care about it anyways? I've run Firefox exclusively for the last 2 decades and have never once run into a site that told me I needed to switch to Chromium for compatibility.

In the past Vivaldi used their own user agent string and they ran into a bunch of issues. And they are a chrome derivative! They had to default to the chrome user agent. Here are the examples they cite in their announcement of the decision: "On Google.com if you present a Vivaldi user agent and arrive via a redirect, the search text box will be misaligned On Google Docs if you present a Vivaldi user agent you will re…

When these mega-companies block new competitors it really ought to be seen as collusion. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft certainly have the resources to test and approve the occasional new browser.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by mold_aid »

einpoklum wrote: post #10

> Human Rights Foundation ... “AI for Individual Rights” program That sounds quite dodgy. Ladybird doesn't have AI, why would such a program support its development? But even before that: "Human Rights Foundation" sounds like "The Human League" which George makes up in Seinfeld as a fake charity. And promoting AI as a "human right" is quite suspicious. If I had to, I might be that this is something backed by one of t…

It is. Ex-FIRE guy's idea. Avoiding Ladybird like the plague, personally.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by ricardobeat »

JoRyGu wrote: post #31
NBPEL wrote: post #24

The hardest part for browser development has always been "artificial" web compatibility, as you know a lot of websites are forcefully blocking specific browser from loading, only allow Chromium to load their websites, that is the reality check for Ladybird, and seriously what stopping new web browsers from being able to compete, same with DRM Widevine, it's REALLY hard to acquire (unobtainiumware) for new browser, ev…

How common is this that they would even care about it anyways? I've run Firefox exclusively for the last 2 decades and have never once run into a site that told me I needed to switch to Chromium for compatibility.

YouTube is crippled in Firefox, has been for years. It doesn’t force you to use Chrome, just a little nudge
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