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    LadybirdBrowser

    LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

    #276 this week

    Truly independent web browser

    developer-tools
    browser
    browser-engine
    C++
    BSD-2-Clause
    66.4K stars
    3.2K forks
    66.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #276 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).

    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?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    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

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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.

    Excerpt from the LadybirdBrowser/ladybird README on GitHub (BSD-2-Clause license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 9: +131Aug 10: +151Aug 11: +178Aug 12: +85Aug 13: +70Aug 14: +73Aug 15: +31

    +1,926 stars over 89 days across 14 snapshot days; best day +178 on Aug 11.

    Forks

    3.2K+81

    Open issues

    584+82

    Compared with peers in Developer Tools

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