🚨 RIP Chrome for AI agents. Someone built a headless browser from scratch that runs 11x faster and uses 9x less memory. It's called Lightpanda. Every AI agent doing web automation right now is running Chrome under the hood. That means you're spinning up a massive desktop application, stripping out the UI, and running hundreds of instances of it on a server. For something that never needs to render a single pixel. It's like renting a semi-truck to deliver a letter. Lightpanda is built differently. Not a fork of Chromium, Blink, or WebKit. Written from scratch in Zig with one goal: headless performance, nothing else. It still runs JavaScript. Still handles Ajax, XHR, Fetch, SPAs, infinite scroll, all of it. Just without dragging along 500MB of browser bloat you'll never use. And it drops straight into your existing stack: → Compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and chromedp via CDP → One-line Docker install → CDP server on port 9222, swap it in for Chrome in 30 seconds The use cases are obvious: AI web agents, LLM training data scraping, browser automation at scale, testing pipelines. Anything where you're paying for Chrome compute and cringing at the bill. It's still in beta and Web API coverage is growing. But at 11.8K stars it's clearly hitting a real nerve. 100% Opensource. AGPL-3.0. Link in comments.