LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
Truly independent web browser
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Where it stands
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The project lists 429 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #10 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a truly independent web browser using a novel web standards-based engine with multi-process architecture.
- Enhances security and stability by sandboxing renderer processes and isolating image decoding and network connections out of process.
- Use for developers seeking a modern, open-source browser engine to experiment with web standards implementation.
- Use for building a secure browsing environment that isolates web content to prevent system-wide compromises.
- Use for contributing to or studying a multi-process browser architecture with integrated custom libraries for rendering, JavaScript, and networking.
Should you depend on it?
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License
BSD 2-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards.
We aim to build a complete, usable browser for the modern web.
Ladybird uses a multi-process architecture with a main UI process, several WebContent renderer processes, an ImageDecoder process, and a RequestServer process.
Image decoding and network connections are done out of process to be more robust against malicious content. Each tab has its own renderer process, which is sandboxed from the rest of the system.
See build instructions for information on how to build Ladybird.
Ladybird runs on Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2), and many other *Nixes.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,502 stars over 90 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +73 on Aug 14.
Forks
3.2K+71
Open issues
365-167
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 188.4K | +4.4K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| affaan-m/ECC | 300.8K | +4.3K | 75 | 40 days ago |
| herdrdev/herdr | 50.0K | +2.1K | 75 | 27 days ago |
| max-sixty/worktrunk | 12.4K | +1.9K | 75 | 21 days ago |
| LadybirdBrowser/ladybird | 67.0K | — | 75 | — |
| Category median | 121.4K | +4.3K | 75 | — |
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