The name is confused. I think it is a web-based OS in the first place.
Hmm, what do you mean? Could you elaborate? Thanks!
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#62> --- How we built? We patch Chromium's C++ source code with our changes, so we have the same security as Google Chrome. We also have an auto-updater for security patches and regular updates. So you rebuild your browser on every Chromium release? Because that's the risk: often changes go into Chromium with very innocent looking commit messages than are released from embargo 90 days later in their CVE reference
Good question, so far we have been building on top of chromium release that Google Chrome is based on.
I feel as though you overlooked the "every" word in my question. I appreciate you built once, that's a solid accomplishment. If I'm going to be riding your custom build, with your custom C++ changes that introduce their own RCE risk, I want to at least know I'm only vulnerable to your RCE and not your RCE plus the 'just disclosed' RCE for Chromium itself that was actually patched 3 weeks ago but that you didn't bother to track because you don't track Chromium release tags
Yes, I'm acutely aware of exactly how much compute pulling off such a stunt requires; what I'm wondering is whether you are aware of exactly how much RCE risk you're running by squatting on someone else's C++ codebase that ships what feels like a vuln-a-week from one of the best funded security research teams in the world
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not GP, but I agree that if your goal is to empower the end user and protect him from corporate overlords, then Firefox is a more logical choice to fork from.
I wonder if someone on the Chromium team will upstream all these BrowserOS changes, or "Not Invented Here" and re-implement it all for Gemini / Google Assistant. Can't imagine Firefox acquiring a Firefox fork!
The hooks needed for integration will probably be implemented in Chrome, not Chromium. Nobody else should have them.
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#64How does the competition do with the same demo tasks?
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#65> But we strongly believe that a privacy-first browser with local LLM support is more important than ever – since agents will have access to so much sensitive data.
How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering?
But if it doesn't make money, I can only assume that the team will be acqui-hired to answer that question.
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#66> --- How we built? We patch Chromium's C++ source code with our changes, so we have the same security as Google Chrome. We also have an auto-updater for security patches and regular updates. So you rebuild your browser on every Chromium release? Because that's the risk: often changes go into Chromium with very innocent looking commit messages than are released from embargo 90 days later in their CVE reference
Good question, so far we have been building on top of chromium release that Google Chrome is based on.
You build from the release branches yeah? So, right now that'd be the 7204 branch. https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Mac
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#67This is not Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
This is the real thing, the original if you will.
As for Perplexity, to me this company and line of product are seemed as the alternative to anything great in AI.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, Firefox's web extension API does not provide access to accessibility tree as well.
I'm not GP, but I agree that if your goal is to empower the end user and protect him from corporate overlords, then Firefox is a more logical choice to fork from.
Isn't the Firefox code notoriously hard to fork and work with? I'm sure that nearly all of these Chrome forks would prefer to fork Firefox, but there's a reason they don't.
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#70I would prefer this as a browser extension, not as its own browser application.
We had this exact thought as well, you don't need a whole browser to implement the agentic capabilities, you can implement the whole thing with the limited permissions of a browser extension. There are plenty of zero day exploit patches that Google immediately rolls out and not to mention all the other features that Google doesn't push to Chromium. I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day brows…
> I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day browser.
Given that you're working on a direct competitor, this comment reads as fearmongering, designed to drive people over to your product.