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Your AI Agent Is Probably Driving an Outdated Browser With the Sandbox Switched Off

Playwright bundles its own Chromium that lags Chrome stable, and it launches with the sandbox off by default. For a human running tests that is a small risk. For an AI coding agent browsing the open web on your laptop, it is a bigger one. The fix takes 2 settings.

3 November 20268 min read

Developer tools

Chrome Spent 5 Years Telling Everyone Nobody Wanted JPEG XL. In 2026 It Shipped It Anyway

In 2022 Google pulled JPEG XL from Chrome, saying there was not enough interest from the ecosystem, while Meta, Adobe, Intel, Shopify, and The Guardian were on the record asking for it. Now Chrome 155 ships a JPEG XL decoder, rewritten in Rust, and the reasons the format was killed look very different in hindsight. I went through the whole timeline, the compression numbers, and who actually wanted this.

25 October 20269 min read