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Ladybird Browser - A New Player in the Market, Funded by GitHub Co-founder

By:Lucas

TapTechNews July 4th news, a new player enters the browser market. Ladybird, a browser funded by the co-founder of GitHub, pledges 'not to use code from competitors' and aims to build an entirely new browser from scratch.

The browser market currently has mainly three kernels, Chromium's Blink kernel, Apple's Safari's WebKit kernel, and Mozilla Firefox's Gecko kernel. And now the market will welcome a new blood - Ladybird.

Chris Wanstrath, the co-founder of GitHub, and Andreas Kling have established a non-profit organization named The Ladybird Browser Initiative. They have successfully received a funding of $1 million (TapTechNews note: currently about 7.29 million Chinese yuan) and are developing a new browser named Ladybird.

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The Ladybird Browser Initiative, as a non-profit organization, gets all its funds from companies or individuals who 'care about the open web' and only accepts 'unrestricted donations.'

Ladybird is currently open-sourced and hosted on GitHub under the BSD-2-Clause license, which means it is free software and has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.

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Ladybird was initially the HTML browser of SerenityOS (a Unix-like operating system for x86-64 processors), created by Kling in 2018.

Kling handed over SerentityOS to a maintenance group last month and said his full attention is now on the Ladybird browser.

Ladybird browser GitHub non profit open source

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