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Perplexity Comet
- daft_pink 1y agoIs there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
- pjm331 1y agothis is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
- kurtoid 1y agoSolve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius
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- bachittle 1y agoAI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
- Spartan-S63 1y agoI want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
- samrus 1y agoanything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
- xnx 1y agoI thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413
- sea-gold 1y agoHave you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based. [1] https://kagi.com/orion/ https://kagi.com/orion/
- AStonesThrow 1y ago[dead]
- aitacobell 1y agoCautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
- poisonborz 1y agoDon't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
- aitacobell 1y agoComet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
- xnx 1y ago> light a fire under Google Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering? I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.
- aitacobell 1y agoYeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.
- _boffin_ 1y agoWhat do you think this browser will be built on-top of?
- pram 1y agoYeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.
- dustyharddrive 1y agoArc has been abandoned.
- lofaszvanitt 1y agoNobody seen that coming
- aitacobell 1y agoInteresting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild
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- pjm331 1y agoa landing page about a new browser and then... > Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time. a bunch of facts about planets? i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me
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- reaperducer 1y agoi use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity. Finally, some truth in marketing!
- samrus 1y agois this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible? you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit
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- xnx 1y agoThe later
- kveykva 1y agoThe scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
- hexomancer 1y agoYeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.
- qntmfred 1y agoand it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
- wy35 1y agoScroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
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- lousken 1y agois that the spyware browser?
- pelagicAustral 1y agoIs there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!
- fsflover 1y agoIceCat.
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- mmh0000 1y agoFirefox + arkenfox (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js) Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/ https://www.torproject.org/download/)
- xnx 1y agoA "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
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- woadwarrior01 1y agoIMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.
- rylan-talerico 1y agoExcited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia. Launch site feels busy, though.
- Alifatisk 1y agoAs far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?
- woadwarrior01 1y agoScrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?
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- seatac76 1y agoOpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...
- sea-gold 1y ago> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
- Alifatisk 1y agoIsn't Perplexitys Comet also built ontop of Chromium?
- lofaszvanitt 1y agooh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.
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- sea-gold 1y agoI'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit. [1] https://ladybird.org https://ladybird.org
- lofaszvanitt 1y agoIt's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.
- ageitgey 1y agoIt's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
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- andrewinardeer 1y agoAm I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
- pjm331 1y agocorrect unless you are on the perplexity max plan
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- pona-a 1y agoThis has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots. They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.
- Alifatisk 1y agoThis page was better https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
- bicepjai 1y agoI have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
- senectus1 1y agoyeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in. I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.
- patrickscoleman 1y agoYou should check out kagi then http://kagi.com/ http://kagi.com/
- bicepjai 1y agoThe next service I will give my money is going to be Kagi since they seem to tick all the right boxes (for now) :)
- snorrah 1y agoWhat a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
- brador 1y agoHolds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence. What are we doing here? Automated trekking bag purchasing.
- Alifatisk 1y agoThis https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?" Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not
- alwillis 1y agoI've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1]. Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot. You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on. It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished. The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3]. [1]: https://www.diabrowser.com https://www.diabrowser.com [2]: https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery [3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc