Comment by sippingabonedry
1 day ago
First thing I thought of.
Browsers are universally dogshit at large downloads.
I'm shocked to learn it's still around, but it hasn't been updated since Windows 7? The page is a warp zone to 2010.
There is still a place for download managers, especially with Mozilla throwing 50% of their effort at rounding corners.
Ladybird might offer a ray of hope on that front:
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/
> Downloads can now be paused and resumed, and survive a browser restart, when the server supports it (#10932). We also download over four parallel connections where possible.
I would not count on Ladybird for anything until 2045 at the rate they are going.
They seem on track based on the updates they post, and are optimistic about reaching their goal of alpha before EOY.
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Download over four parallel connections to the same server?!
These people decided to build an entirely new browser in a memory-unsafe language? Why!!?
The project started as SerenityOS, an OS with a browser built in and it was written in modern C++ with safeguards.
Now, the team is converting parts of the browser into Rust with AI. For example they converted their javascript interpreter into Rust. They are doing bit-perfect matching of input and output to achieve feature parity. See https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
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