Ladybird browser's August 2026 update brings significant improvements including Twitch video playback, expanded YouTube codec support (AV1, H.265, H.264), CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging in DevTools, and pausable downloads. Engine performance became a sustained focus with a new style engine, layout caching, and CSS animations moving off the main thread, alongside CSS parsing and painting pipeline moving to Rust.
Background
Ladybird is an open-source web browser built from scratch using C++ and Rust, aiming to provide a modern, standards-compliant browsing experience as an alternative to Chromium-based browsers.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 8, 2026 at 01:24 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10