This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

I am watching this project with interest.

It's impressive that they're doing such titanic work. However, I'm highly skeptical that they can create a real rival to established browsers. I'm sorry for telling this, but Web standards are simply too complex and huge. Ladybird to Chrome / Firefox is almost like Wine / ReactOS to Windows, that last 3-5% of gap actually differentiates a normal browser from a browser that is a pain for web developers. And it's the most stubborn part to be fixed. Also, keep in mind that it hasn't much market, at least IE had a significant market that forced the developers to support it (with all the hate).

https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-04-07/will-there-be-a-new-...

I didn't expect to see Twitch working so soon!

Ladybird seems to have received a nice boost in momentum in the past two years. If you've ever watched one of Andreas videos on YouTube you'll find he's incredibly driven and knowledgeable in this area. I can imagine someone like him would go from being a "10x programmer" to a "100x programmer" with AI assistance. I am not entirely sure to what degree AI is being leveraged to speed up development, but I am indeed happier I might be able to ditch FF and begin using their browser soon.

Really excited for alpha. When it hits I plan on using it for my daily driver to help them with usage stats and crash reports.

> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.

I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.

This is such a nerdy newsletter I love it

Are there other sites that get through ad blockers as well as Twitch?

Feels like the old "browser wars" days again. Between AI productivity, and Google losing the grace to bloat the web specs, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to take market share away from other browsers as soon as it's stable.

lol this is such a funny scam. these investors are so easy to fool