Open-sourced Lightpanda: headless browser 11x faster than Chrome with 9x less RAM
JafarNajafov · x · 2026-09-05
Someone open-sourced Lightpanda, a headless browser written from scratch in Zig for AI agents, scraping, and automation — not a Chromium fork. It claims 11x faster execution and 9x lower memory than Chrome, with instant startup.
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