I hear it’s the first browser in a long while to come with a new engine. Completely independent and no revenue model. To me that would work well for privacy but I see no mention of privacy as any benefit. In fact I don’t see a privacy policy anywhere !
Is a goal of the browser to be telemetry free ? Should I as a person who cares about privacy be showing any interest?
I’d be happier if Firefox received more support. A relatively equal duopoly of browsers is preferable IMO to 80% market share for one, and the remaining 20% broken up amongst half a dozen competing alternatives.
Lot of developer power out there that would be better spent improving what’s mostly already there (Firefox) rather than starting multiple different projects from scratch again. People will burn up any energy and spare time they had to help without even seeing a new browser render it’s first HELL WORLD
tbh I’m more excited about Servo.org. They’re also developing a fully independent browser engine and are funded by the Linux Foundation. Ladybird has corporate sponsors, so I’m a bit hesitant. But the more the merrier I guess.
Has something changed recently? Last time I looked at Servo it was just an engine, not a full browser. The servo project wants others to use their rendering engine to create browsers and use it as an alternative to Electron.
It’s just the engine, but it’s supposed to be a much more modern and smaller engine, so writing a new browser on top of it would be much easier than using gecko is. But you’re right, it’s not a browser. There is Verso as a prototype browser, but it’s far from functional.
That’s true, but they have a prototype “browser” you can download from their website. And I’m hoping for a fleshed out version in the end, either from them or someone else.
Well, it’s nice the developement of a new independent engine, but I’m old and not sure to see the first stable and usefull release of it. The engine is by far the most complex part of the browser, with the need of an big team to develope it for several platforms (even linux distros are not always compatible one with another)
Nowadays Blink is the most advanced engine, because nobody else than Google has the infrastructure and the amount of devs working on it, even with the power to modify web standarts. This is at the same time also the problem.
Yes, Chromium is 100% FOSS and everybody can modify and gutting it to his like, but always depends on the update releases from Google. The only solution is an independent Chromium team and community.
A new browserengine would change nothing, because it comes 20 years late in a market of nearly 80% Chromium in an web optimized by it, like dozends of other indie browsers with a handfull users each or even abandoned out there (eg Otter and others) even the grandfather of Blink, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by the German KDE, forked by Google and Apple.
I won’t touch the transphobic browser for the same reasons I don’t use the homophobic browser
It’s unremarkable and has baggage.
The Servo browser is where it’s at. It’s written entirely in rust so it has a leg up on stability and security over other browsers. The issue is that they’re not really interested in the most important part, which is things like bookmarks and dark mode. They are laser focussed on the engine and anyone who would use Servo would be fine with a few websites looking broken.
If Firefox released a Servo-based spin, I’d use that in a heartbeat.
are the servo creators as red pilled as ladybird’s creators?
No. It’s developed by the Linux Foundation Europe.
Depends on where you are on the political spectrum:
https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html
I am paying attention to both Ladybird and Servo but am not yet “excited” about either. I am hoping they both continue to improve and become more usable (for me - YMMV) but do not expect the possibility of Daily Driver usage (again, for my use model) for at least another year.
I am, sevro could be cool be they aren’t actually making a “web browser”
In terms of privacy, not really more than any other FOSS browser.
What’s more interesting about it is that they’re developing their own browser engine (meaning there will be another independent implementation of web standards) and licensing it (IIRC) more permissively than the existing ones. But that is of course not what this community is about.
Eh everyone here acting all mighty because of whose behind it but they are still using gnu products. Stallman is not exactly a perfect model, why are people using gnu.
And what, dare I ask, is the problem with gnu?
