The extension API is pretty limited nowadays. I know you can't inspect network requests any more, which is why original AdBlock is no longer possible to run as an extension. You can't open your own TCP sockets any more, which you really want to do for performance. You can't grab the visible area as a video feed, you can't grab the visible area on an inactive tab.
Plus, obviously Google controls the extension API, and a popular extension can be killed at any moment by removing an API that it relies on. Like the original AdBlock.
So, Comet, Dia, this thing, it makes sense to me that all of these companies are trying to do new browsers rather than just an extension.
And yet they're still using an engine fully under the control of their greatest adversary, unless they individually want to take on the maintenance burden of a hard fork when google inevitably messes up chromium underneath them. I think these meme browsers guys should switch to gecko and start funding Mozilla for development and influence over web standards, the way Epic Games does with Blender. It's like they've never heard of commoditizing your compliment.
Forgive the rant but it baffles me that Chrome on Windows remains dominant when a Chromium browser (Edge) is pre-installed, supports basically all the same features (yes, tab groups too) and all the same extensions (you literally just go to the Chrome store), full-fat uBlock Origin still works, vertical tabs, performance/RAM usage is anecdotally better, etc.
That person in the screenshot could have been ad-free the entire time just by installing Edge for Mac (it exists!) or Brave or Opera and just...using Edge all the time on Windows and not just for YouTube, with no meaningful compromises.
Yet their mind was blown by a browser that was not even trying to meet their needs. Peoples' browser habits are very strange.
On priors I would expect any new browser to fail unless it has a killer feature that cannot be done with a Chrome extension or otherwise has some unique way to break the Chrome addiction. If prompt injection is solved then maybe OpenAI can do that?
"...except that I should have doubled it again" -- the answer to "how much memory do I need" is always "as much as you can cram in". I would expect someone using 3 monitors to know this.
it does support third party extensions and external password managers - i was able to set up uBlock, Raindrop, and Proton Pass.
The extension API is pretty limited nowadays. I know you can't inspect network requests any more, which is why original AdBlock is no longer possible to run as an extension. You can't open your own TCP sockets any more, which you really want to do for performance. You can't grab the visible area as a video feed, you can't grab the visible area on an inactive tab.
Plus, obviously Google controls the extension API, and a popular extension can be killed at any moment by removing an API that it relies on. Like the original AdBlock.
So, Comet, Dia, this thing, it makes sense to me that all of these companies are trying to do new browsers rather than just an extension.
And yet they're still using an engine fully under the control of their greatest adversary, unless they individually want to take on the maintenance burden of a hard fork when google inevitably messes up chromium underneath them. I think these meme browsers guys should switch to gecko and start funding Mozilla for development and influence over web standards, the way Epic Games does with Blender. It's like they've never heard of commoditizing your compliment.
Forgive the rant but it baffles me that Chrome on Windows remains dominant when a Chromium browser (Edge) is pre-installed, supports basically all the same features (yes, tab groups too) and all the same extensions (you literally just go to the Chrome store), full-fat uBlock Origin still works, vertical tabs, performance/RAM usage is anecdotally better, etc.
That person in the screenshot could have been ad-free the entire time just by installing Edge for Mac (it exists!) or Brave or Opera and just...using Edge all the time on Windows and not just for YouTube, with no meaningful compromises.
Yet their mind was blown by a browser that was not even trying to meet their needs. Peoples' browser habits are very strange.
On priors I would expect any new browser to fail unless it has a killer feature that cannot be done with a Chrome extension or otherwise has some unique way to break the Chrome addiction. If prompt injection is solved then maybe OpenAI can do that?
Also: Has anyone tried "Copilot mode" in Edge?
Internet Explorer had been so terrible for so long that people's dislike of the Microsoft browser is kinda baked in at this point.
Firefox has had an AI side bar for at least 6 months and you even get to chose your LLM (and real extensions)
https://open.substack.com/pub/pramodhmallipatna/p/the-ai-browser-wars-owning-the-interface
"...except that I should have doubled it again" -- the answer to "how much memory do I need" is always "as much as you can cram in". I would expect someone using 3 monitors to know this.