If you're running AI agents or web scrapers at scale and Chrome's memory footprint is killing you, Lightpanda is worth testing. It's a headless browser written from scratch in Zig that claims 9x less memory and 11x faster performance than Chrome headless. The key win is CDP compatibility, so your existing Playwright, Puppeteer, or chromedp code works without rewrites. It's still beta and doesn't support the full web platform, so skip it for screenshot generation or comprehensive browser testing. Best fit is batch scraping, form automation, and containerized environments where you need something lighter than Chromium but don't want to write custom HTTP clients.
npx skills add https://github.com/aradotso/trending-skills --skill lightpanda-browser