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The progress each month is so impressive to see, I'm always looking forward to the next blog post from them.

> The Gtk port is gone . We’re focusing our efforts on making the Qt port look solid everywhere instead (#10536).

I'm sad to see this, but I understand not duplicating efforts. Maybe someone will be interested in filling this niche once the alpha release comes around.

As someone who used Firefox (then Phoenix 0.2) I keep wondering where the binaries are...

"Claude I cloned the repo to the current directory, please compile the project for me within a docker container."

The consistency and quality of the releases are impressive. If I was told five years ago that someone took over the task of creating a web browser from scratch, WITHOUT AI HELP AT FIRST, I would not have believe it.

Would you have expected AIs 5 years ago to be able to help with this?

Nope.

This Month in Ladybird – July 2026