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Post by layer8 » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 10:12 PM UTC

felarof wrote: post #12

layer8 wrote: post #7

I would prefer this as a browser extension, not as its own browser application.

We would've preferred to build this as browser extension too. But we strongly believe that for building a good agent co-pilot we need bunch of changes at Chromium C++ code level. For example, chromium has a accessibility tree for every website, but doesn't expose it as an API to chrome extension. Having access to accessibility tree would greatly improve agent execution. We are also building bunch of changes in C++ fo…

Post by felarof » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:14 PM UTC

paul7986 wrote: post #22

So would this or any AI browser go out and fetch a list of the best deals for my trip to Iceland? After Show me all the options it has found for flights, hotels, car rentals and show cheapest/best prices with all details (fly out of and into with times) to even allow me to pay for each item on same page I asked it to do so? As well it could group the overall best deal with details and then i can just click to pay ins…

Post by felarof » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #24

felarof wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't mind upstreaming. But I don't think Google Chrome/Chromium wants to expose it as an API chrome extensions, if not they would've done this long time ago. From Google's perspective, extension are meant to be lightweight applications, with restricted access.

I'm not really interested in AI agents for my webbrowser, but it would be pretty cool to see a fork of chromium available that, aside from being de-googled, relaxes all the "restricted access" to make it more fun to modify and customize the way you guys are. Just a thought, may be more of a market for the framework more than the product :) See Sciter. A very cool, super lightweight alternative to Electron, but unfort…

Post by ivape » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

Post by felarof » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

o_____________o wrote: post #28

Would love to see this show up on homebrew!