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Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by felarof »

awongh wrote: post #63

I think LLMs could have a reasonable chance at solving tab-related workflows (keeping track of tabs or the idea/concept of tabs) - that is tracking and sorting lots of small related research ideas. Sort of like a backwards perplexity search. (LLM context is from open tabs rather than the tool that brings you to those tabs) I built a tab manager extension a long time ago that people used but ran into the same problem-…

Yeah, I feel LLMs can finally solve the tab overload issue. I suffer from this constantly.

I added few features which I felt would be useful - easy way to organise and group tabs - simple way to save and resume sessions with selective context.

What are your problems that you would like to see solved?

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by psychoslave »

abirch wrote: post #50
dotancohen wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> very copyleft and not compatible with business models. Could you explain this for the rest of us? Thanks.

"The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html This means that if this company is succes…

A business that maintain its customer base captive through any kind of designed technical defect and asymmetrical information distribution is not striving for excellence in customer experience.

Saying that such a behavior encompasses all possible business models, it's like saying directorship is the only form of governance.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by mbreese »

wongarsu wrote: post #13

Name derived from Netscape (Firefox's great-grandfather), icon is a red fox, but based on Chrome? Was this originally designed as a Firefox fork or what happened there

I can’t see how this project lasts with the current name/logo. As mentioned elsewhere, Netscape is still a trademark, and this is quite confusing between Netscape and Firefox.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by kordlessagain »

hannob wrote: post #46

Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: what is an agentic browser? You seem to assume that everyone knows what that means. Is this a common and well-defined term that people use? I've never heard it. It would appear to me from the context that it means something like "web browser with AI stuff tackled on".

Agents are LLM responses that are feed with tools, like calculate(expression). When it encounters a thing it needs to do to meet desired output, it will run the tool. That is defining a simple agentic workflow.

A complicated workflow may involve other tools. For example, the input to the LLM may produce something that tells it to set the user-agent to such and such as string:

  set_user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36");
Other tools could be clicking on things in the page, or even injecting custom JavaScript when a page loads.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by Sophira »

felarof wrote: post #41
al_borland wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why a fox? The browser is based on Chrome. Firefox basically owns having a fox as a mascot in the browser space. Why not pick something original? The fox confusing at best, but some may say misleading. Same goes for the name.

Thanks for the feedback. Honestly—we just reused the icon we had gotten professionally designed for the last idea we were working on ( https://felafax.ai/ ). But not gonna lie, as a tiny startup, we don’t have marketing budget of Perplexity or Dia, so we picked a name and icon that at least hinted at “browser” right away. Definitely not trying to mislead anyone -- just needed something recognizable out of the gate.

You stated in the parent comment that you used GPT4o to generate it, but now you're saying you had a professionally made icon? I don't understand.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by [deleted] »

Lammy wrote: post #36

AOL still have active trademarks for “Netscape” which might trouble you here: - https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76017078&caseSearchType=U... > PROVIDING MULTIPLE-USER ACCESS TO A GLOBAL COMPUTER INFORMATION NETWORK FOR THE TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF DATA, IMAGES, AND DOCUMENTS VIA COMPUTER NETWORKS; [ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVICES; PROVIDING ON-LINE CHAT ROOMS F…

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Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by monkeywork »

psychoslave wrote: post #72
abirch wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html This means that if this company is succes…

A business that maintain its customer base captive through any kind of designed technical defect and asymmetrical information distribution is not striving for excellence in customer experience. Saying that such a behavior encompasses all possible business models, it's like saying directorship is the only form of governance.

Name 3 succesful companies running under such restrictions?

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by psychoslave »

felarof wrote: post #71
awongh wrote: post #63

I think LLMs could have a reasonable chance at solving tab-related workflows (keeping track of tabs or the idea/concept of tabs) - that is tracking and sorting lots of small related research ideas. Sort of like a backwards perplexity search. (LLM context is from open tabs rather than the tool that brings you to those tabs) I built a tab manager extension a long time ago that people used but ran into the same problem-…

Yeah, I feel LLMs can finally solve the tab overload issue. I suffer from this constantly. I added few features which I felt would be useful - easy way to organise and group tabs - simple way to save and resume sessions with selective context. What are your problems that you would like to see solved?

I think a large part of it is us, as user, we lake the appropriate discipline.

Resist the call to open in a tab every link in this article, overcome the fear of losing something if all these tabs lagging behind are closed right now without further consideration.

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