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From their GitHub readme:
> but Chrome hasn't evolved much in 10 years
Really?? It is not true. You guys please go and check release notes and commits log for Chrome/Chromium project for the past 10 years.
Since it's a Chromium fork, why not re-enable uBlock Origin instead?
What a joke project! Chromium has a over 35 million lines of code. These people applied a few patches on it, and then advertising it as if they have developed a new browser. The same goes for Comet also. From their GitHub readme: > but Chrome hasn't evolved much in 10 years Really?? It is not true. You guys please go and check release notes and commits log for Chrome/Chromium project for the past 10 years.
What a joke project! Chromium has a over 35 million lines of code. These people applied a few patches on it, and then advertising it as if they have developed a new browser. The same goes for Comet also. From their GitHub readme: > but Chrome hasn't evolved much in 10 years Really?? It is not true. You guys please go and check release notes and commits log for Chrome/Chromium project for the past 10 years.
Maybe they're only refering to the frontend/UX. It's true that in 10 years it has not changed much compared to the diff with browserOS.
The main element in a web browser's UI is the web view where web pages get rendered. It may look the same 'rectangle' as it used to look 10 years ago. But the way chrome renders web pages and execute JavaScript have undergone a lot of changes over the years. Also they have added a lot of new standard and nonstandard HTML, CSS and JavaScript features. Then, there is WebGL 2.0, WebAssembly, WebGPU, etc.
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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…
Brave Browser (70M+ users) has validated that a chromium fork can be viable path. And it can in fact provide better privacy and security. Chrome extensions is not a bad idea too. Just saying that owning the underlying source code has some strong advantages in the long term (being able to use C++ for a11y tree, DOM handling, etc -- which will be 20-40X faster than injecting JS using chrome extension).
Our benchmark results [https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/web-bench-results] show that we are 7x faster than browser-use so curious to see if your claims live up to the hype
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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.
As an ex-Google engineer I know the immense engineering efforts and infrastructure setup to develop Chrome. It is very implausible that two people can handle all the effort to serve a secure browser with 15+ million lines of constantly changing C++ code.
A sandboxxed browser extension is the natural form factor for these agentic capabilities.
This is very exciting given the rumor that OpenAI will be launching a (presumably not open source) browser of their own this summer. I've joined your Discord, so will try it soon and report back there. Congrats on launching!
Thank you! Browser wars have begun. > that OpenAI will be launching a (presumably not open source) browser of their own this summer. For sure, won't be open-source. I bet in some parallel world, openAI would be non-profit and actually open-source AI :)
Kind of a sad browser war. The majority of these Chromium forks should exist, nor are they particularly viable. Sniffing out which one is going to be successful is obviously the hard problem.
Ideally we'd get an extensions API for AI agents and various companies could just release their own plugins. Sadly I don't think the majority is interested, they want to control the "experience".
I would prefer this as a browser extension, not as its own browser application.
This is similar to the chrome extension nanobrowser. https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser