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Igalia
Company blog · igalia.comprogrammingweb
Igalia is the company blog at igalia.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 56 different Hacker News readers have linked it 180 times, most often “Helping Valve to power up Steam devices”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Igalia is a worker-owned open source consultancy working on browser engines such as Chromium, WebKit and Servo. HN commenters cite it as an example of a tech co-op, and mention its hiring and contributions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most
Most-linked posts?
- /13 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2017-02-14
- Helping Valve to power up Steam devices6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-11-21
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
- Open Prioritization: An experiment in crowd-funding prioritization3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-13
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-23
- Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird & developing a new, novel browser engine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-06
- Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-10
- /jobs/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-16
- Bringing MathML back to Chromium2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10
- Wolvic 1.0 – the next stage in XR browsing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-09
What Hacker News says?
There are lots of small OSS businesses that are contractors to the big companies you mention. My go-to example is Igalia, who work on web browser and other core OSS tech, but there lots of others, some mentioned on the FOSSjobs wiki. https://www.igalia.com/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
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on “The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs”Submitted Helping Valve to power up Steam devices as a story · 859 points
HN discussionOpera is the fifth contributor to Chromium: https://www.igalia.com/assets/i/news/ranking-chromium.svg
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on “DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome”Submitted Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund as a story · 403 points
HN discussionMany of them have left Google (and competitors) and work for a consulting firm called Igalia that contributes to all browser engines. https://www.igalia.com/technology/browsers
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on “DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome”Submitted Wolvic, a new browser project picking up where Firefox Reality leaves off as a story · 180 points
HN discussionThere are enough similarities that Igalia ( https://www.igalia.com/ ) could implement CSS Grid for Blink and WebKit at about the same time.
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on “Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10”Submitted MathML Progress as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThere are consulting companies that do OSS development on web related projects, Igalia is probably the closest one, or maybe Collabora. https://www.igalia.com/ https://www.collabora.com/
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on “Servo’s new home”Submitted Intent to Ship: MathML in Chromium as a story · 31 points
HN discussionIgalia are hiring for WebKit and related work: https://www.igalia.com/jobs/
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on “Mozilla lays off 70”Submitted Open Prioritization: An experiment in crowd-funding prioritization as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIt can be done; an example is Igalia: https://www.igalia.com/jobs/ > We are a worker-owned, employee-run company with more than 20 years of experience building open source software in a wide range of exciting fields. If there's enough money to go to the developers actively working on a product to make it sustainable, I think a lot of people would get on board with that and would pay for FF.
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on “Let me pay for Firefox”Submitted Bringing MathML back to Chromium as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThe only time I've seen rendering issues with Safari was on early versions of Catalina but that was true of a lot of apps back then. I blame how sucky Catalina was for the first few releases. In the latest versions of Catalina and on Big Sur, Safari has been rock solid; none of these issues. Again, no issues with CSS Grid either. Igalia ( https://www.igalia.com ) implemented CSS Grid for both Webkit and Blink; they…
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on “macOS Big Sur”Submitted Twenty-Five Years Upstream as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThey were chatting together: https://www.igalia.com/chats/ladybird
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on “The Ladybird browser project”Submitted RIP XSLT? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIgalia | Multiple positions | A Coruña, Spain | Full-Time | REMOTE | https://www.igalia.com/nc/about-us/ Igalia is a worker-owned, employee-run company with over 15 years of experience building Free Software across a wide range of exciting fields. We work on the core of such widely-deployed projects as the WebKit and Blink browser engines, the Mesa graphics drivers, the V8, JavaScriptCore and SpiderMonkey language r…
Comment linking /nc/about-us/form/sales-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Open Prioritization: Advancing the common web together as a story · 4 points
HN discussion“Servo is more than a browser engine—it’s a collection of crates used widely across the Rust ecosystem. Maintaining these libraries benefits not just Servo, but the broader web platform.“ Per: https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sov...
Comment linking /2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html
on “Servo v0.0.1”Submitted What Happens If They Sell Chrome? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIgalia (who are heading Servo nowadays), say: > Embedding Servo into applications requires a stable and complete WebView API. While early work exists, it’s not yet ready for general use. (While announcing that they got funded to fix that.) https://www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sov...
Comment linking /2025/10/09/Igalia,-Servo,-and-the-Sovereign-Tech-Fund.html
on “Servo v0.0.1”Submitted Open Source Adreno Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIgalia | Multiple positions | A Coruña, Spain | Full-Time | REMOTE | https://www.igalia.com/nc/about-us/ Igalia is a worker-owned, employee-run company with 17 years of experience building Free Software in a wide range of exciting fields. We work on the core of such widely-deployed projects as the WebKit and Blink browser engines, the Mesa graphics drivers, the V8 and JavaScriptCore language runtimes, and the GStrea…
Comment linking /nc/about-us/form/sales-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Linux 7.2 Released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRecently I learned about CachyOS, it has custom scheduler to run things smoothly, including games. And SteamOS is also doing the custom scheduler for games. From what I can find, Bazzite doesn't seem to use custom scheduler. Does these custom scheduler bring noticeable gains during usage? My previous linux desktop was a non-gaming distro, so I'm a bit curious on these fancy stuffs. - BORE, CachyOS scheduler: https:/…
Comment linking /2025/11/helpingvalve.html
on “Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming”Submitted Moonforge: A Yocto-Based Linux OS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIgalia | Multiple positions | A Coruña, Spain | Full-Time | REMOTE | https://www.igalia.com/ Igalia is a worker-owned, employee-run company with over 17 years of experience building Free Software across a wide range of exciting fields. We work on the core of such widely-deployed projects as the WebKit and Blink browser engines, the Mesa graphics drivers, the V8, JavaScriptCore and SpiderMonkey language runtimes, and…
Comment linking /nc/about-us/form/senior-systems-administrator-galicia-spain
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted The Servo project is joining Linux Foundation Europe as a story · 2 points
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