Ladybird: a truly independent web browser

Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.

From its humble beginnings as an HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby operating system project, Ladybird has since grown into a cross-platform browser supporting Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.

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

What makes Ladybird unique

Truly independent

No code from other browsers. They're building a new engine, based on web standards.

Singular focus

Focused on one thing: the web browser.

No monetization

No "default search deals", crypto tokens, or other forms of user monetization, ever.

Features

They 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.

At the moment, many core library support components are inherited from SerenityOS:

• LibWeb: Web rendering engine
• LibJS: JavaScript engine
• LibWasm: WebAssembly implementation
• LibCrypto/LibTLS: Cryptography primitives and Transport Layer Security
• LibHTTP: HTTP/1.1 client
• LibGfx: 2D Graphics Library, Image Decoding and Rendering
• LibUnicode: Unicode and locale support
• LibMedia: Audio and video playback
• LibCore: Event loop, OS abstraction layer
• LibIPC: Inter-process communication