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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jev and Lightpanda are getting on well. Jev decides, Lightpanda clicks. We sent them to browse SF hostels with parking on a startup budget 🍜 > 129 agents fit on one laptop vs 12 with Chrome > 11x less memory than Chrome > 6.7s per task with Jev vs 14.1s with gemini-3.8-flash Code in comments

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lightpanda 0.4.1 is out > CORS support, --experimental-features cors to opt in > nth-* selectors ~140x faster > native ad-blocker regex + request engine > --strip-mode for cleaner content extraction > Full click pointer/mouse sequence + real wheel scroll > --locale and --timezone

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lightpanda clicks and scrolls like a real browser now. A click fires the full pointer/mouse sequence, so menus that open on mousedown open, and the wheel scrolls the viewport. 🐭📜 Code in comments github.com/lightpanda-i... github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Several big perf improvements in the latest Lightpanda nightly 🔥 > nth-* selectors: Now caches sibling positions. 56ms → 0.4ms/query, ~140x (PR 3449) > class matching: ~33% faster, close to Firefox (PR 3457) > getBoundingClientRect stops re-walking the DOM (PR 3467) github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📣 Python users, you can just pip install lightpanda. The browser ships in the wheel. Same 100 quotes off a JavaScript-rendered page: > Selenium and Chrome need 1121 MB > Lightpanda needs 39 MB lightpanda.io/docs/guides/...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lightpanda speaks WebDriver BiDi. It is early. > Demo is Selenium's Python client. > Lightpanda serves BiDi and CDP off the same port and picks the driver from the path. > Enable bidi with --protocol webdriver. Pass both --protocol webdriver --protocol cdp. > We'd love to hear what's missing.

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lightpanda 0.4.0 is out > Breaking: iframes and workers no longer load by default (restore with --load-resources iframe and --load-resources worker) > New Web APIs inc URLPattern, navigator.geolocation and WorkerNavigator More in comments github.com/lightpanda-io/browser/releases/tag/0.4.0

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lightpanda's agent now searches the web with no API key. The Keenable public endpoint is the new default. It used to fall back to scraping a DuckDuckGo SERP, which their robots.txt disallows. In the clip, every search credential is unset. Two tool calls, 19 seconds. lightpanda.io/docs/usage/a...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lightpanda can take screenshots now. lightpanda fetch --dump png renders the page's markdown representation to a PNG, and Page.captureScreenshot returns a real image instead of the placeholder, so you see what your agent saw. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Asked Lightpanda's agent for an open source headless browser that isn't a Chromium fork. It searched with Exa, opened the top result and read the release and stars off the page. Exa joins Brave and Tavily as a search backend. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1.64m passing wpt tests, up 33k from yesterday. Shadow DOM work: Element.getHTML() and node tracking across shadow roots >>> github.com/lightpanda-i... One web API at a time.

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Zig's new self-hosted compiler dropped local Lightpanda builds from ~60s to ~10s. Via the opt-in -Ddev_fast=true flag on main (Linux x86-64). No more excuses. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lightpanda's HTTP cache now takes a --http-cache-entry-limit flag, default 1000. Cap how many responses persist, and it evicts the oldest by stored time once the cache is full (0 means no limit). Code >>> gist.github.com/katie-lpd/6b...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Live: playground in Lightpanda's console 🕹️ Write a Puppeteer or Playwright script, hit run, and it executes on Lightpanda Cloud. Both clients are preinstalled and we set CDP_WS_URL for you, so there's no token to paste. > Try it console.lightpanda.io/signup > Docs lightpanda.io/docs/run-on-...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lightpanda has an SQLite HTTP cache now. Point it at a cache dir and responses persist across runs, revalidating with ETag when stale. Same fetch twice here, the second served from SQLite. Code --> gist.github.com/katie-lpd/b8...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Grouped dropdowns now work in Lightpanda. Every <option> inside an <optgroup> used to be invisible to .options, .value and form submission. It reads them all now, matching the HTML spec.

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Lightpanda now respects CSS @layer priority, so the cascade resolves the way modern stylesheets expect. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We upgraded Lightpanda to Zig 0.16. The new std.Io dropped in behind one global instance, so our libcurl integration and event loop needed zero changes. Migration notes: github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lightpanda now preloads every script on the page. A pre-parsing pass scans the HTML up front and fetches all the script tags together, instead of one at a time as the parser reaches them. Same page, 1815ms to 305ms. 6x faster. ⚡ github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The lightpanda agent REPL now renders markdown as styled terminal output. Piped output stays raw. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lightpanda now exposes Prometheus metrics. Point your existing dashboards at Lightpanda and track requests, memory and more in real time. github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Lightpanda now fetches multiple URLs in a single command 3x faster, one flag ⚡ Same 4 pages - Sequential: 15.9s - Concurrent: 5.4s github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Lightpanda Agent now runs with llama.cpp Open source agent, open source model, both running on your hardware.

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Introducing: Lightpanda Agent + PandaScript 4 years ago we said we'd rewrite the browser automation stack. Today we shipped it. > LLM at buildtime, not runtime > Talk to it in plain English > Get back a script you replay forever > No CDP serialization, no Playwright/Puppeteer, no Node/Python setup

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Browsers waste time loading scripts one at a time. We shipped <link rel=preload as=script> support so Lightpanda now starts downloading blocking scripts up front instead of as the parser hits them. Old build: 1813ms New build: 606ms gist.github.com/katie-lpd/ae...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

File uploads now work in Lightpanda! 🗃️ Attach a file to an input[type=file], submit, and Lightpanda encodes it as multipart/form-data, same as a real browser. github.com/lightpanda-i... github.com/lightpanda-i...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We already have the fastest engine. These three releases are what let agents feel it

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our MCP leaned on markdown, dumping 10-30KB of page text per call vs. agent-browser + Lightpanda that favors smaller tool calls like semantic tree

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Lightpanda now implements the CookieStore web API 🍪 It's the modern async way to read and write cookies, instead of parsing document.cookie strings by hand. We also cleaned up cookie ownership, which removes a double-free risk on certain error paths so sessions stay stable when things go wrong.

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Slack, crypto exchanges, live dashboards: all push real-time data through a WebSocket inside a Web Worker. Lightpanda can run that path now. Below: a Worker hitting Binance, BTC trades streaming into the terminal. PR: github.com/lightpanda-i... Code: gist.github.com/katie-lpd/4a...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Lightpanda is now a browser backend in Hermes by Nous Research. Open source autonomous agent. Open source browser built for machines. It had to be done. Set Lightpanda as default with automatic Chrome fallback. github.com/NousResearch...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The web platform test flywheel is officially in motion 600k -> 1.4m in 1 week

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Having fun benchmarking Chrome vs Lightpanda on agent-browser 🧨

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

300k -> 600k passing wpt tests 🚀

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Every tool in web automation runs on a browser engine. Until now, there was only one choice: Chromium. We built the second. We mapped the whole stack, and how changing the engine at the bottom ripples through every layer above it. lightpanda.io/blog/posts/w...

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We just shipped Web Bot Auth support 🔓 Every HTTP request gets signed with your Ed25519 key, including subrequests from JavaScript We also open sourced wbauth, a Go server for hosting your key directory: github.com/lightpanda-i... Technical write up 🧵⤵️

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Lightpanda @lightpanda.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

🤯⚡️🫶 +5k stars in 48h github.com/lightpanda-i...

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