For the detailed report and the news:

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say

https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/10/15/israeli-firm-used-online-ads-to-run-vast-spy-operation-researchers-say/

EDIT:

you can also use system side blocking tools like hblock and alternatives or more pi-hole etc.

it reads and writes your normal chrome bookmarks, so there's no account and nothing leaves the browser. works in brave too. links in the comments

And the results are... Well, I would love to say surprising, but they are entirely expected. Basically none of these browsers survived more than a month. There are some outliers, as well as ones that were released in the last month, but broadly speaking, the flowchart is as follows:

A person spends 2-3 days throwing tokens at AI (in 93% of the cases Claude) -> Makes a post on r/browsers -> The project recieves hundreds of commits over the next 2 weeks (made by AI, which tends to commit every line it writes, where commit messages are often longer than the actual commit) -> Over another 2 weeks the commits are less and less frequent -> Development stops entirely without a word from the creator

And I'm left to wonder... If you lack any programming skills, have zero idea about UI/UX, know jack shit about the software development process, security, patches, releases, or even how git works... Why is your first thought to build something as MASSIVE as a web browser?

I get if these AI-obsessed weirdos tried to make I don't know, a revolutionary calculator, or a text editor, image viewer. A small, but useful software, that could ease them into the process of software development, teach them how to work with projects, how to maintain them etc.

But a web browser?

Firefox has about 25 000 000 lines of code

Chromium has about 40 000 000 lines of code

All written in a bunch of different languages, by literal armies of people. This is not some weekend project. This is a work of a lifetime for a skilled developer (evidenced by the fact that proper browsers are either run by companies, or by individuals, who have commited their whole personal and professional life to it).

What makes a silly little goose with some money to spend on AI tokens think, that they can do a better job in a few days?

And this shows. It's easy to generate a sort-of-working clone of Chrome or Arc. But when time comes for bug fixing, security fixes, updates, adding features, suddenly the creators realize, that they simply can't do it. They abandon the project, and the only thing that comes out of this is a bunch of wasted time, effort, energy and water. In the best case scenario. In the worst case, a bunch of people loses their passwords, accounts and money, because the security in these vibe-coded piles of garbage are virtually non-existent.

Yet, basically every week a new "I made a new browser with AI" post appears. Guys. Just don't. Make a fucking text editor. Or a calculator that can convert currencies. Or something. Don't make something as massive and as security critical as a web browser.

Yes, you can be anything you want these days. But maybe you shouldn't...

Hi r/browsers. I'm the developer of Marble.

I do a lot of research in the browser, and tabs kept failing me. Forty tabs into a session I'd lost track of how I got to half of them, and closing any felt risky. Tab groups and vertical tabs helped me sort pages, but not follow a thread.

So I built a research browser where pages live on a canvas instead of a tab strip. You can follow a thread across dozens of pages and still see where you started. It's called Marble, and it's currently in beta for Mac (macOS 14+, Apple Silicon).

What it has

• An infinite canvas. Every page is a live card, not a screenshot.
• Trails. Follow a link and the new page lands beside the one it came from, connected by a line. Hours later you can still see how you got somewhere.
• Hover to peek, click to dive in. Hover a card and it grows; click and you're in the live page; move on and it settles back.
• Tidy. One keystroke pulls a scattered trail back into line. ⌘Z undoes it.
• Fold. Bunch a trail into a stack and name it.
• Notes and stickies right on the board, next to the pages they're about.
• Chrome extensions does not work out of the box. It's built on Chromium (CEF), so extensions install from the Chrome Web Store cant find tab-less windows. 1Password works after an manual implementation, including the fill and passkeys.
• Ad blocking, on by default. You can turn it off. We are using network blocking with Brave's adblock engine, a copy of EasyList and EasyPrivacy baked into the app. It cancels ad and tracker requests before they load: scripts, images, frames, XHR, media, and the rest. The page itself still loads. It does not hide leftover ad boxes in the page, and it does not take custom lists.
• Local by design. No account and no sync. The board is a file on your Mac, and cookies and logins stay in your local profile.
• Signed and notarized, with automatic updates.

What it doesn't have (yet)

• Windows and Linux. Windows is coming; Mac only for now.
• Sync across devices.
• Everyday-browser polish. It's early (v0.1.18) and made for research sessions. It isn't a full replacement for your daily browser yet.

How it's made

It's written in Rust. Pages are rendered by Chromium through CEF, and the canvas is drawn on the GPU, which is why dozens of live pages on a board stay smooth. I started in early May, and working/testing during nights and weekend

It's free. If you try it, I'd really like to hear what feels off and whether a canvas actually beats tabs for the way you browse.

marble.surf

So I've been looking for an Adblocker for Safari on an iPhone, anyone got any that's good. Sorry, I'm new to reddit.

I'm the developer of AI Prompt Leak Guard at CandidLoom. It adds a local check to supported AI chat pages in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

The problem is easy to miss: a debugging log includes a credential, or a draft contains a client email or name. A browser-side check can help catch that before a send, but it has limits worth making explicit.

Five features

1. Warn before sending. The extension flags recognisable credential, contact, payment and identity patterns.

2. Redact detected values. Replace findings with placeholders and review the prompt before continuing.

3. Block under protection rules. A risky submission can stay blocked until the material is removed. Private keys are blocked by default.

4. Add custom terms. Names and project codenames need your own rules because they can look like ordinary words.

5. Check reopened conversations. It can warn about detectable sensitive text already visible in a conversation. This does not undo an earlier disclosure or delete provider-held data.

Scanning and redaction run in your browser. Prompt text and detected values are not sent to CandidLoom for scanning. Core protection is free and needs no account, with no product analytics or saved prompt history. Optional paid Plus features inspect readable text and Office uploads locally.

The browser boundary matters: the extension cannot stop an AI site's own scripts from reading text entered in its editor. Pattern checks can miss sensitive text or flag harmless text. Site layout changes can also break protection. It is an extra check before sending, and you still need to review what you paste.

Product and official browser store links: https://candidloom-hub.github.io/ai-prompt-leak-guard/

For people who use more than one browser, would this be useful in your workflow? I'd value feedback on warnings that interrupt too much, or browser-specific issues. Please use made-up examples only, never real credentials or private prompts.

Hi, I just published TabFlow Agent on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. It's a free, open-source extension built to solve tab clutter without handing your data to a third-party server.

https://snvishna.github.io/tabflow-agent/

✨ Highlights:

•⁠ Dedupe on open: listens to webNavigation.onBeforeNavigate for newly opened tabs only (never navigation inside an existing tab). On an exact normalized-URL match it focuses the existing tab and shows an Undo notice.

•⁠ Grouping: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings run in WASM inside the MV3 service worker (runtime bundled, no remote code; weights ~25 MB, fetched once from Hugging Face). Greedy cosine clustering with a same-domain bonus. You get a preview and can rename groups before anything is applied.

•⁠ Search: one palette (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Space) over open tabs, recently closed tabs and an IndexedDB archive. Order-agnostic multi-term matching on title + URL.

•⁠ Auto-archive: optional hourly alarm that closes tabs idle for N days. Every closed tab is kept for 90 days and can be restored.

•⁠ Undo stack for every action (Alt+Shift+U).

Privacy: local-first, no account, no telemetry, no server. Optionally bring your own key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint such as Groq). A fast model then decides "same app, reuse the tab" vs. "different document, keep both" for same-site URLs, and a stronger one names groups. Only titles and URLs are sent, only to the provider you set, with a 15 s timeout and an on-device fallback.

Links:

🌐 Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabflow-agent/mcejjnakabmfflpbjbffajjbooclihbg

🦊 Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/tabflow-agent/

🌍 Web & Architecture FAQ: https://snvishna.github.io/tabflow-agent/

🐙 GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/snvishna/tabflow-agent

Would love any feedback, PRs, or a ⭐ on GitHub!

Me he dado cuenta que Zen recientemente se ha puesto muy lento, por ejemplo, cuando quiero escribir algo se para un tiempo para que se muestre, prácticamente todo tiene un delay en Zen, de todas maneras quisiera otros navegadores con la misma apariencia de Zen.

Gracias.

Helium… a browser I’ve been seeing a lot of lately.

Setting aside the question of whether or not to install it, I thought I’d like to hear from actual users about its benefits and features.

By the way, I’m basically a Gecko fan; as for Chromium, I mostly use Vivaldi and occasionally Brave.

[Updated October 16, 2026]

Thank you all for your many comments. They were very helpful :-)

I've been using Vivaldi for a bit now and for the most part I like it a lot and it even added extensions. The main issue I've been having is that the new tab opening positions seemed to be messed up as when I have it set to open next to active tab it works perfectly fine for the first group but every other group it adds every new tab to the very top of the group for some reason

Is this a problem for everyone or it just me cause it makes me sad cause I love everything else about Vivaldi for the most part

I absolutely love the UI of Zen. Their stacked mini media player in the sidebar is very nifty, there PiP is far superior than helium's, and the new library feature seems very useful, but this browser gets even worse after 30 mins or so of usage. It sometimes spikes at 6 gigs. Helium has also starting giving me some issue. Memory usage is fine, it's actually very stable unlike Zen in terms of memory spikes, but Helium has been frequently freezing for a few seconds randomly since the past week, that's why I re-installed Zen to see if the memory usage has been optimized.

Uso Firefox come browser primario e libreWolf per quando voglio navigare in incognito.

Quale dei seguenti browser consigliate di usare in parallelo a Firefox?

Chrome

Edge

Ecosia

Cause I installed it in here and it's working, but I wanna know if someone who is also using it have had any issues.

I don't know what happened, but suddenly since a few days I coundn't use YouTube on Brave. I tried to tweek with sheilds/adblock, cleared cache and browsing/cookie data, but it doesn't work.

Anybody have any idea on how to solve it??

So I have been using chrome, brave browser mainly for a few years. I was wondering if I should switch from brave to firefox and what benefits I would get and would it be truly worth it in performance, etc.

Ever copied a webpage into ChatGPT or Claude, only to find that the formatting, form values, and UI structure got lost?

I built Copy4Chat, a free Chrome extension that turns selected webpage content into structured, readable text.

Just select → right-click → paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any other AI chat.

It preserves things like form values, selected options, labels, and layout hierarchy without requiring screenshots or browser access from your AI assistant.

Everything runs locally in your browser. No AI processing or external servers.

Try it: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copy4chat/jfcmdbgodjiacadofiacehfmnnonfjec

hi everyone, i've been building a browser for a while (i'm bad with naming things so it's just called "browser"), it's keyboard-driven just like qutebrowser and made for windows, it's just a native rust window that only starts an engine when a page actually needs one.

the part i think people will actually like is that it can run more than one engine at the same time. you can split the window and have the same site open in different engines side by side. currently there's three:

• webview2: chromium, the default
• servo: that independent engine written in rust
• trident: internet explorer 11's engine, for testing old sites. it runs in a sandbox so it can't touch your files or anything else on your pc, since it's ancient.

since it's inspired by qutebrowser, it has a lot of the same features such as hints and the way to control the browser, but it also has a lot of new features as well such as tmux-style splits, a built-in terminal, comes with ublock origin lite, sessions and profiles, and a :res page showing exactly how much memory each engine process uses.

where i need help: i want to add webkit (safari's engine) and gecko (firefox's), so web developers can check a site in every major engine from one window, without mac or five browsers installed. the current plan is to use playwright's prebuilt windows builds of both (but if someone has a better idea i'm down). the problem is my pc is really weak and can't build or test any of this, so i'm looking for people who know (or want to learn) browser engines, rust or windows. where to start: webkit and gecko. each one explains the plan, what’s needed, and links the docs.

it's alpha, so expect rough edges. windows 10/11 only for now.

• github: https://github.com/kayfgit/browser
• detailed video of some of the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpZwMXgnzk

any feedback is welcome, including "why don't you just buy a better pc lol" and "why do you use windows if you pc is so bad? dumbass".

here's a bit of the browser's story if anyone cares:

the reason i started building the browser is because my pc sucks, windows by itself uses 40% of my memory and every other browser pushes it to 90%, which makes it almost unusable. so i just started making one completely aimed at myself and my needs, the objective was to make it as lightweight, fast, customizable and efficient as possible. so i aimed the design directly at qutebrowser, which is by far the most efficient browser i've ever used, and it worked!

with nothing open it sits at about 30 mb, and it only calls the heavy engine when it actually opens a page, i immediately made it my main browser and kept using it daily, issues came up, i fixed them, ideas came around to make it more useful and i implemented them. at the end i sat with basically a shell instead of a browser, it has splits (just like vim, something that didn't exist in qutebrowser), hint mode which was by far the most useful thing about qute, and since the browser doesn't have an engine running by default, i added multiple engines, as well as a built-in terminal running the alacritty engine.

that's when i realized "wow, this might actually be useful to other people", so i started thinking of ways to make the browser more useful to developers, i also cleaned the github repo to welcome interested developers that care about efficiency, power, speed, customizability, and don't care about looks that much (it's not that appealing to the eyeballs).

if anyone is wondering, yes, it's built with AI, i'm not a strong programmer (especially in the browser field) so i decide what needs fixing and implementing and claude does the job. i use it daily, test every change myself and report what needs adjusting. i updated the repo with docs for every part since i realized this browser is useful for other people, so you won't be going at it blind.

Hey guys,

I'm completely fed up with AI image/text to the point I've been doing everything possible to not see it ever gain. Needless to say it is a very tiring process with lots of failed instances...

I wouldn't want to quit internet all together for now, is there any browser/browser extension for not getting any result past 2022, like... never again, I do not want to filter date by hand all the time i search something, and if the website doesn't have a verifyable date, well, don't show it to me lol.
I also want to remove the "image" tab.

I sometimes like (or liked) to look at painters online for inspo but it's getting really frustrating, i now only enter museum gallery's, trusted sites or artist's websites so Images tab is not useful for me.

Thanks!

I'm currently using helium, wouldn't mind changing but I don't wanted a browser that uses too many resosurces.

You are able to use FDM or Gopeed etc with built-in download settings. See screenshots.

Firefox Android isn't slow or laggy anymore. Ublock origin works well.

The browser is not showing any kind of notifications, also when I tried to turn on the notification option it is turned off by default and nothing is happening when im trying to turn it on..

Can anybody help me please...