Chrome might become too heavy for the era of AI agents.

Lightpanda, a headless browser, written from scratch, which works 11X faster and uses 9X less memory

And most interesting thing is that it is not based on Chromium.

➡️ Why need of another?

Currently, almost all AI agents that automate work with websites use Chrome under the hood.

But there's a problem.

You're actually running a huge desktop application without an interface, sometimes hundreds of times on a server.

And all this for a task where there's no need to render a single pixel.

This is like renting a wagon to send a letter.

Lightpanda does everything differently.

It's written in Zig and was originally created for just one purpose -
the fastest headless browser for automation.

At the same time, it still supports:

• JavaScript
• Ajax
• Fetch / XHR
• SPA applications
• infinite scroll

But without hundreds of megabytes of browser "ballast", which you don't need.

It's also very easy to connect:

• works with Playwright, Puppeteer and chromedp via CDP
• one Docker command
• CDP server on port 9222
• can replace Chrome literally in 30 seconds

Where this is particularly useful:

• AI web agents
• collecting data for LLM training
• large-scale browser automation
• test pipelines

Project is still in beta, but has already gathered 11.8K stars on GitHub and it's open source under AGPL-3.0 license.

Seems that a new browser standard might emerge for AI agents.

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