Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HandyBrowser
A Handshake enabled Chromium browser and reference client
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HandyBrowser launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Sidekick Browser▲1,050A productivity browser for becoming focused and unstoppable
2020 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →
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My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE. Check it out: https://impervious.com/beacon https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon
2022 · its alternatives →
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Control the web with prompts (open source)
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling. It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools. Hasn't this been done a lot of times? Good question, as a general…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stash▲140Syncs your fav links across multiple browsers & accounts
2023 · rafaelgandi.notion.site · its alternatives →
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LT Browser 2.0▲182Experience 6X faster responsive web development
2023 · testmuai.com · its alternatives →
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BrowserHelp▲86Control Chrome by talking to Alexa!
2017 · serene-harbor-37271.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Owl Browser▲145I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…
Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →
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OpenDia▲185no need to switch browsers, just use dia on chrome or arc
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Donut Browser▲154Hi HN, I'm excited to share my open source project, a browser orchestrator. It's purpose is to make it easy to manage many browser profiles on one system. Currently it only works on MacOS, but since I've built it using Tauri (which is a Rust backend and TypeScript frontend), I expect to add Linux and Windows support in the future. I've built it primarily for myself as I use a lot of browsers and having an easy way to manage all of my profiles would make (have made, actually) my dock less cluttered haha. Also, part of why I built it is because as someone who doesn't really care about…
Apr 2026 · donutbrowser.com · its alternatives →
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Cobrowse.io▲89Screenshare and remote control built into Android & iOS apps
2018 · cobrowse.io · its alternatives →
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We’ve been building infrastructure to spin up browsers for AI agents. Originally, we built[0] it as a pool of warm Docker containers running Chromium, exposing: - Chrome DevTools Protocol (for Playwright/Puppeteer) - noVNC (for live view) We’ve been following the unikernel space for a while, so we decided to see if we could get our image on one. We went with Unikraft Cloud[1]. Here’s how it did: - Boot-up time: 10–20ms (vs. ~5s for Docker containers) - Near 0 CPU/memory consumption when idle - Still ~8GB RAM when active (headful Chromium) Potential use cases: - Standby mode during…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OSINT Tool▲109Chrome extension looks up phone/email/IP/people via APIs
2021 · osint-tool.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we just shipped a browser with an inbuilt MCP server! We're a YC startup (S24) building BrowserOS — an open‑source Chromium fork. We're a privacy‑first alternative to the new wave of AI browsers like Dia, Perplexity Comet. Since launching ~3 months ago, the #1 request has been to expose our browser as an MCP server. -- Google beat us to launch with chrome-devtools-mcp (solid product btw), which lets you build/debug web apps by connecting Chrome to coding assistants. But we wanted to take this a step further: we packaged the MCP server directly into our browser binary. That gives…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add IPFS native URL support for chromium based browsers
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome now includes a native on-device LLM (Gemini Nano) starting in version 138. I've been building with it since it was in origin trials, it's powerful but the official Prompt API is still a bit awkward: - Enforces sessions even for basic usage - Requires user-triggered downloads - Lacks type safety or structured error handling So I open-sourced a small TypeScript wrapper I originally built for other projects to smooth over the rough edges: github: https://github.com/kstonekuan/simple-chromium-ai npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/simple-chromium-ai…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · genielabs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
2014 · developer.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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