Does it support MP4 playback?
Yes, it works.
cool, some chromium forks forget to add the support. Thanks
Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
111–120 of 228 posts
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not on purpose, just got compressed during production build through webpack. will get that fixed.
Thank you for the clarification! While reviewing the prompt's capabilities, I had an idea: implementing a Greasemonkey/Userscript-style system, where users could inject custom JavaScript or prompts based on URLs, could be a powerful way to enhance website interactions. For instance, consider a banking website with a cumbersome data export process that requires extra steps to make the data usable. Imagine being able t…
great idea & usecase! Will look into this.Thanks!
Was huge fan of Tampermonkey back in the days.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#113Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should only be used as a fallback if the agent is too dumb to figure out what I want. A chat interface works for ChatGPT because most folks use it as a pseudo-search, but productivity tools are (broadly speaking) not generative, therefore shouldn't be…
Like hundreds of millions of people want to chat with a computer. At least.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#114IMO comments so far seem to be not seeing the forest for the trees -- I can imagine incredible value for myself in a browser that hooks into a local LLM, writes everything it sees to a local timestamped database (oversimplification), parses and summarizes everything you interact with (again, oversimplification -- this would be tunable and scriptable), exposes Puppeteer-like functionality that is both scriptable via code and prompt-to-generate-code, helps you map shit out, remember stuff, find forgotten things that are "on the tip of your [digital] tongue", learn what you're interested in (again, local), help proactively filter ads, spam, phishing, bullshit you don't want to see, etc, can be wound up and let go to tackle internet tasks autonomously for (and WITH) you (oversimplification), on and on and on.
Bookmarks don't cut it anymore when you've got 25 years of them saved.
Falling down deep rabbit holes because you landed on an attention-desperate website to check one single thing and immediately got distracted can be reduced by running a bodyguard bot to filter junk out. Those sites create deafening noise that you can squash by telling the bot to just let you know when somebody replies to your comment with something of substance that you might actually want to read.
If it truly works, I can imagine the digital equivalent of a personal assistant + tour manager + doorman + bodyguard + housekeeper + mechanic + etc, that could all be turned off and on with a switch.
Given that the browser is our main portal to the chaos that is internet in 2025, this is not a bad idea! Really depends on the execution, but yeah.. I'm very curious to see how this project (and projects like it) go.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#115Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should only be used as a fallback if the agent is too dumb to figure out what I want. A chat interface works for ChatGPT because most folks use it as a pseudo-search, but productivity tools are (broadly speaking) not generative, therefore shouldn't be…
Like hundreds of millions of people want to chat with a computer. At least.
This is simply not true in the productivity space (which is the context here). People just want to get shit done.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#116Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should only be used as a fallback if the agent is too dumb to figure out what I want. A chat interface works for ChatGPT because most folks use it as a pseudo-search, but productivity tools are (broadly speaking) not generative, therefore shouldn't be…
What do you see as an alternative? This is exactly what people need. To give quick instructions and have agent work on tasks across webpages/webapps. You say you "have many thoughts on fixing this". Can you share a better vision?
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#117Do you respect robots.txt?
This is a user agent and I would be incredibly frustrated if they respected robots.txt. Robots.txt was designed to encourage recursive web crawlers to be respectful. It's specifically not meant to exclude agents that are acting on users' direct requests.
Website operators should not get a say in what kinds of user agents I used to access their sites. Terminal? Fine. Regular web browser? Okay. AI powered web browser? Who cares. The strength of the web lies in the fact that I can access it with many different kinds of tools depending on my use case, and we cannot sacrifice that strength on the altar of hatred of AI tools.
Down that road lies disaster, with the Play Integrity API being just the tip of the iceberg.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#118Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#119Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, not today. But wonder if it matter if it the agent is mostly using it for "human" use cases and not scrapping?
Yes it would matter. The AI might be I in your eyes, but it is still A.
So is Chrome. Very artificial. It's still not a robot for the purposes of robots.txt.
What coherent definition of robot excludes Chrome but includes this?