Ladybird comes from Serenity OS which has a focus of having fun and being pragmatic while building everything from scratch incrementally.
They do plan to switch to Swift: https://ladybird.org/#:~:text=Why%20build%20a%20new%20browse...
I appreciate their pragmatism though, it's allowed them to catch up to other alternative browsers in WPT coverage very quickly.
OK, fun is valid. And it's good to have expectations set.
Open source people who are looking for a more trustworthy browser than Firefox will have to look elsewhere, though.
Elsewhere… where? WebKit?
Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser
by GoblinSlayer on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:17AM
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off topic, but I have never seen a link like yours before.
Today, I learned about Text Fragment Identifiers [0]. Thanks, very handy!
Chrome and Edge have a context menu item to create a link like this when you select text ("Copy link to highlight").
Firefox 131 and up will highlight the relevant portion on the page but can't create new links in a user-friendly fashion.
> But [firefox] can't create new links in a user-friendly fashion.
It's not built-in, but there is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-...
That's something that you use fuzzing as one way to detect a failure of, not as the means of achieving correctness and security.
I'm not picking on Ladybird here specifically. Chrome and Firefox provide constant streams of security vulnerabilities. But it would be nice if Ladybird didn't start with the same problems that might be attributed to huge legacy code bases.