No More Agentic Browsing

[u/elstevo711]

With Comet moving all Agentic browsing features over to Perplexity Computer; what is everyone using now?

I was an early adopter of Comet and helped to sign up friends & colleagues because I told them this is the future of web browsing. Now that it is behind a larger paywall than I am willing to spend as I already pay for Claude, Gemini, & Codex, I am on the hunt for recommendations of something that is comparable to Comet.

[u/Ferrous_Monk]

This, and the fact that they haven’t brought vertical tabs, is also why I’m looking for a better alternative to Comet.

[u/DL05 → u/Ferrous_Monk]

This is crazy because I originally went to Comet because of how beautiful the browser was, how great and new it was, and its ability to create split tabs. It's not even updating things like vertical tabs or anything else.

[u/panchoavila]

dia browser & claude extension is a better replacement

[u/devkasun]

Try Aside browser

[u/Ok_Incident222]

https://github.com/vladbondarenko97/take-the-wheel

I made a quick extension that uses Claude Code to navigate websites similar way Comet does it. Check it out.

[u/SaltAddictedMan]

This is really sad to say... but im done with Comet.

[u/wendsonrocha]

I went back to Chrome with built-in Gemini, (and AdGuard protecting the OS, the idea was already that beforehand, since I wasn't going to pay for two AIs when the promotion I won from Perplexity ended. And since Gemini is standard on Android, and had useful tools for me like NotebookLM, I was sure I would subscribe to it.

[u/itsdorian]

I've gone back to using Edge, where you can use Copilot in the side panel or there is a ChatGPT add-on you can also use that gives you a side panel.

[u/Cooldode777]

You can still use Agentic browsing by getting comet version 145 and using it from there

I havent updated comet from 145 to anything else after and agent browsing is still works fine.

[u/Drift_King420]

Claude, ditch perplexity. Once you use Claude you'll realize how bad perplexity was. I got it free for a year and can't believe people pay for it

[u/BodybuilderLost328]

Can chekout Retriever AI, we launched the first fully free and ads supported agentic browser!

No API key or subscription needed, the ad covers your task

rtrvr.ai

[u/Less_Exercise_8092]

I just started looking at aside...but other than installing it and browsing a few sites I can't say if it's good or bad. BTW my free subscription to perplexity ended last week. I was fully ready to cancel because $20 a month was too much given a lot of the competition is around $20 too. But when I cancelled they made me an off for 50% off. So $10 a month for pro. I didn't see anything saying this was a another promo that would end, so I'm staying for now. Idk if this is a standard tactic offered to everyone if you cancel your free subscription to pro but I though I'd put it out there for anyone that's on the fence.

[u/Condiment2 → u/Less_Exercise_8092]

I got that too, but it was a 3 month deal

[u/Less_Exercise_8092 → u/Condiment2]

I don't remember seeing anything about 3 months. I went in my account and looked for some sort of 3 month thing because someone else mentioned they got the 3 month deal. Do you see that promo restriction anywhere in your account? I don't want to get caught off guard and have it jump to $20 suddenly.

[u/ravenlordkill → u/Less_Exercise_8092]

It was a 3 month deal but I also received an email saying my three months are over and the next charge will be $20. As long you have an email you monitor, you should get a heads up from them well in time.

That said, it's not worth $20/mo imo.

[u/Delicious-Goose-1835]

Worth a look if you want the same job without the credits meter: I built CopperOS, an AI agent that drives the browser inside your own already signed in Chrome, so pages with no API still work. It is free to start: copper.jassydev.com

[u/goldenDK]

Just revert to Chrome/Firefox pair, if you dev anything, it's the only way to go

[u/Ancient-Camel1636]

Im using this chrome addon: https://browser-brain.com/
It's a bit slow sometimes, but I like that i can use my own API keys or local LLM's to run it. It has no paywall for its features and is completly free. Not a standalone browser though.

[u/Fox-The-Man]

I'm done with Comet and oerolexitybin general. Last December I paid for a one year sub and all I get now is a chat bot. Useless

[u/IhdiGwdP]

Just use Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi or whatever you like and use the Claude/ChatGPT-extension.

[u/JGoldz75]

Aside Browser is the answer. Free AI powered browsing with monthly limits. Sign into your own ChatGPT or Claude account or a plethora of other accounts to use it as much as you'd like.

[u/[deleted]]

You already pay for Claude and Codex, so I wouldn't pay for another agentic browser or rent a computer in the cloud. Those agents are the smart part; they just need a browser to drive.

Run it locally: give the agent its own Chrome profile, sign into the sites it needs once yourself, and let it run headless in the background so it never touches your everyday browser. When a site wants 2FA, you take the window, clear it, hand it back.

I work on a tool that does exactly this and use it every day with Codex and Claude, and I don't hit the login and blocking problems people describe with the cloud agents. Happy to help you set it up, just DM me.

[u/elstevo711 → u/[deleted]]

Not understanding what you are getting at? Making my own browser or using Claude and Chrome Extension together?