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Why not something like https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser.

Its kinda built really well without exposing webdriver etc and can comfortably run js and communicate with LLMs.Has full agentic capabilites.

Why a new browser instead of a robust extension?






Why a new browser extension for Chrome instead of an MCP operating Chrome over Chrome DevTools Protocol?

https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/

Not vouching for this project, but just an example of the category existing: https://github.com/AgentDeskAI/browser-tools-mcp


CDP is great for testing. But one of the most basic checks for bot detection is checking for CDP(webdriver). Its always going to be a cat and mouse game. You'll see a bunch of solutions captch solvers etc, But they usually are only good for a few weeks.

There's no reason why the same cat and mouse game wouldn't apply to this browser as a whole.

With stuff like https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/application-services/produc... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ big money going on both sides last thing you want is to shadow detected as a bot. Its all ok if you are scraping to top rated SEO slop which is usually static sites but for anything beyond it wont work well eventually. Quite a few issues on browerbase, crawl4ai and similar repos around being detected as a bot.



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