Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo (linuxiac.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/0446226/ladybird-browser-gains-cloudflare-support-to-challenge-the-status-quo
- Source link: https://linuxiac.com/ladybird-browser-gains-cloudflare-support-to-challenge-the-status-quo/
> In a somewhat unexpected move, Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative aimed at developing a modern, standalone web browser engine.
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> It's a project launched by GitHub's co-founder and former CEO, Chris Wanstrath, and tech visionary Andreas Kling. It's written in C++, and designed to be fast, standards-compliant, and free of external dependencies. Its main selling point? Unlike most alternative browsers today, Ladybird doesn't sit on top of Chromium or WebKit. Instead, it's building a completely new rendering engine from scratch, which is a rare thing in today's web landscape. For reference, the vast majority of web traffic currently runs through engines developed by either Google (Blink/Chromium), Apple (WebKit), or Mozilla (Gecko).
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> The sponsorship means the Ladybird team will have more resources to accelerate development. This includes paying developers to work on crucial features, such as JavaScript support, rendering improvements, and compatibility with modern web applications. Cloudflare stated that its support is part of a broader initiative to keep the web open, where competition and multiple implementations can drive enhanced security, performance, and innovation.
The article adds that Cloudflare also chose to sponsor Omarchy, a tool that runs on Arch and sets up and configures a Hyprland tiling window manager, along with a curated set of defaults and developer tools including Neovim, Docker, and Git.
[1] https://linuxiac.com/ladybird-browser-gains-cloudflare-support-to-challenge-the-status-quo/
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What competition are you talking about? We need standards compliant browsers that don't ship personal data back to a corporate overlord and allow for extensibility and use how the users themselves want. That pretty much IS Firefox or Waterfox or Seamonkey or Icecat or whatever other Gecko-based browser you want. If you *really* want another alternative, Mozilla is working on Servo, written in rust. I can't imagine this Ladybird browser is somehow more compliant or memory safer than Gecko, other than having
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Mozilla IS a corporation: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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If you want to nitpick - Sure its a corporation but Mozilla Corp is not out to enrich shareholder value or even make a profit - its fully owned by the Mozilla Foundation without a rich board or venture capitalists trying to expand the profit footprint. The corp status is for tax convenience. Unlike OpenAI which has a similar structure, Mozilla Foundation has complete control over the corporate side. The Gecko and firefox source is 100% open source promoting open standards using open projects. Mozilla has pr
Remember WHY the internet behaves this way. (Score:2)
We should remember WHY the internet behaves like one big data mining operation now. Because most people are too fucking cheap to pay, and now consider it offensive (and somehow “racist”) if you have the nerve to actually charge money for your online service to avoid what everyone now does.
You, are now The Product being bought and sold. We fucked this up by allowing Greed N. Corruption to charge nothing, and it cost us everything. We even believed them when they called it “social”
Re: heroes we need but don't deserve (Score:1)
I think the difference between chromium and chrome is a very important thing to observe and not neglect
Re: heroes we need but don't deserve (Score:2)
Cloudflare has been making some bold moves lately and I'm trying not to get my hopes up but so far they seem to be following Google's original (and discarded) mantra of doing no evil.
Given their enormous reach, it's not an exaggeration to say the future of the web depends on Cloudflare *not* turning evil.
I'm all for this (Score:2)
Another rendering engine is always welcome, and having backing from a company the size of CloudFlare means it might actually get some traction and be taken seriously. The Apple-Google duopoly needs some shaking up by someone with clout... and unfortunately that's not Mozilla (I say that as a Firefox user).
no noscript (Score:2)
It does not support; it does not support WebExtensions APIs. I'm guessing it won't support other ad-blockers as well. So no dice, not on my machine, not yet anyhow.
Cloudflare is the bane of the Internet (Score:2)
Nothing is more of a pita for my Internet use than Cloudflare's robot challenge. It is absolutely terrible, repeatedly challenging me, sometimes without any access in between.
I'll stay away from anything with their name on it.
C++?? (Score:1)
How should an engine be modern or even sufficiently safe when written in c++?
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Some people know how to write good C++. And you won't find a more modern programming language than recent C++ standards.
KOTH (Score:2)
Boomhaur: "I dunnoman newfangled renderengine gonna buggy n'all lottavolving standards, man."
Gribble: "It's all part of the browser conspiracy with the Government and Google spying on you. That's why I don't use the web --- GOD, they EVEN CALL IT the "web". Rusty Shackleford, on the other hand has an Internet profile. You can take your Illuminati Browser and shove it up your ass. I fear that we have lost Hank."
Hank Hill: "Ladybird is a trustworthy and reliable browser, with a keen sense of smell, and she is
Hyprland (Score:2)
> a Hyprland tiling window manager, along with a curated set of defaults and developer tools including Neovim, Docker, and Git.
In case you're wondering, Hyprland is a WM alternative that doesn't support remote login. It does tiling, but it doesn't do compositing as well as Compiz, and is a bit slow.