Does it support MP4 playback?
Yes, it works.
Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
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#62Okay, 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".
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#63I 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- the concept of tab management runs deeper than just the tabs themselves.
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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.
It doesn’t look like you reused that icon. It looks like you generated a new one with AI. So it could have been any animal (or not even an animal at all).
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#65This is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?
Qwen3 8B works pretty well. But for complex planning and navigation tasks, big models (GPT4.1, claude 3.7) are the still the best bet. We also let you use your own API keys for the big models.
Thanks, eager to try :)
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No, not today. But wonder if it matter if it the agent is mostly using it for "human" use cases and not scrapping?
What do you mean? This AI cannot scrape multiple links automatically? Like "make a summary of all the recipes linked in this page" kind of stuff? If it can it definitely meets the definition of scraping.
I think what he means is it is not just generally crawling and scraping, and uses a more targeted approach. Equivalent to a user going to each of those sites, just more efficiently.
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Thanks for asking - not a stupid question at all! I should have probably explained it at the top of my post. By "agentic browser" we basically mean a browser with AI agents that can do web navigation tasks for you. So instead of you manually clicking around to reorder something on Amazon or fill out forms, the AI agent can actually navigate the site and do those tasks.
Not to pull a "why should I use Dropbox when I have rsync" but why should we use this over adding a Playwright MCP to Claude Desktop or similar? Does having access to Chromium internals give you any super powers over connecting over the Chrome Devtools Protocol?
Yes, eventually we think there is more value of owning the entire stack than just be a MCP connector.
Few ideas we were thinking of: integrating a small LLM, building MCP store into browser, building a more AI friendly DOM, etc.
Even today, we use chrome's accessibility tree (a better representation of DOM for LLMs) which is not exposed via chrome extension APIs.
Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
#69This is the missing piece from Karpathy's keynote: the browser.
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#70Okay, 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".
I first heard the term agentic about a month ago. I went from never hearing it, to hearing it 3 or 4 times in 2 days... one of which was on an internal town hall where I work, where leadership was simply using it as if the whole world already knew what it meant, instead of literally being the first time it was ever mentioned.
The tl;dr is that it's AI that makes decisions on its own.