Cloudflare backing Ladybird (and Omarchy!)

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A bit old -ish news but I had missed it. Maybe you too?

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Yeah, I caught that in a video yesterday.

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I am glad cloudflare will back ladybird! If we want a open source browser than this is a good thing.

I surely hope that ladybird will be a success as there isn’t really a open source browser

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I have hopes for Ladybird, but they’re slowly dwindling with the lack of release (even as an alpha).

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They aren’t even in alpha yet. They’re in pre-alpha.

From Ladybird’s official web page:

Ladybird is currently in heavy development. We are targeting a first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026.

Ladybird has a LONG way to go.

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Yeah that’s kinda my point.
With the common wisdom being to release early and release often :wink:
To do otherwise risks losing interest and momentum. I do know that today’s browser is a complicated beast.

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Why should they lose momentum? Time is on their side, because the two big ones are getting worse almost every release. Beside that, “Release often” is only a thing after the first beta, before it is too frustrating for users.

Regarding the news itself I am a bit concerned about it. Cloudflare has quite some power and money, but has too much control and knowledge over the internet. Not the ideal partner for a FLOSS browser I sure put some hope on. Well, let’s see. I hope I am wrong.

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Ahmm. Firefox and Chromium.

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Chromium is open source but only partial as Google has influence on the source code

And yes Firefox is open source (and what i use) but American of origin and not non profit.

So as a European it is the only choice as far as open source but not the best choice, in that light comes Ladybird as a far better choice

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Is Ladybird a European project?

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I can’t find if it is?

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Here you go https://ladybird.org/organization/

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Ah Thanks!

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So yes ladybird is US based and not European based but still better than Firefox as it is a non profit.

Ideally (no offense to US) there should be a European browser that is open source and non profit, Ladybird can be the closest alternative in the absence of a European alternative.

KDE plasma has a browser so has Gnome but it is not competitor the top browsers

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If there is a European browser then please base it off QT libraries and not GTK libraries. As it is Firefox uses GTK and not QT on Linux.

@fred666 what UI libraries does Ladybird use? QT or GTK?

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According to the build instructions QT

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Hmmm. QT6 based libraries. Great, I am going to try Ladybird one of these days.