Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OPFS Explorer
The Missing DevTools Panel for Origin Private File System
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I'm happy to say that https://use-fs.com 2.0 has been released with brand new OPFS support. If you're building browser-based apps that heavily interact with the file-system this package is a must to have in your package.json! A React hook that watches a directory and re-renders when a file is added, changed, or deleted. Point it at a folder the user picked and you're reading and writing their real files — no uploads, no endless file dialogs New in 2.0: it watches the origin private file system too. No picker, no permission prompt, no user gesture — and, unlike File System API, it…
Aug 2026 · use-fs.com · its alternatives →
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a FUSE file system based on Google Drive. Contribute to harababurel/gcsf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · 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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Hey everyone! I'm excited to share a small web app I built that allows you to view and extract the contents of Windows MSI installers directly in your browser. It's essentially a web-based "lessmsi" powered by Pyodide. You can try it out at: https://pymsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/msi_viewer.html My motivation for building this was from part of my day job -- I often get Windows MSI installers and need to extract files while preserving the relative directory structure and filenames, as they would appear after a full installation. The existing tools I found were good…
2025 · pymsi.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →
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Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud - KonstantinSchubert/zero
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I like to use org files a lot, but I wanted some way to browse and edit them on my phone when I'm out. Yesterday I used Codex to make this simple one-file web server that just displays all my org files with backlinks. It doesn't have any authentication because I only run it on my wireguard VPN. I've been having fun with it, hopefully it's useful to someone else!
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Obie for Chrome▲110Free browser extension to help you find docs & wikis, fast.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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emacs-viewer - A web frontend for your Org-files (100% faithful to GNU+Emacs!)
2022 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
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💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by Compiler Explorer and other playground/fiddle websites like jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground, I thought it would be cool to have a playground for nearly any program so I've been working on Program Explorer: a playground for running programs from containers. I am inspired by these playgrounds because they are great educational tools for quickly experimenting and as communication tools by sharing shortlinks that reproduce bugs for instance. I would love for every open source project that publishes a container to get their own playground for free. I'm…
2025 · programexplorer.org · its alternatives →
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Exploit chrome's profile sync for free cloud storage - velzie/bookmarkfs
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…
Jul 2026 · search.cerast-intelligence.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · odrive.com · its alternatives →
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How Reclaim went from running verification on phones to building Popcorn: a fast, mobile-native browser cloud that runs inside trusted execution environments.
Aug 2026 · blog.reclaimprotocol.org · its alternatives →
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Hello folks, Generally, I never had problems locating, or quick accessing my files using "Everything". It’s fast and does the job well, no complains there. So… why build something else? Because I have some minor complains that have inspired me to work on my own custom replacement to it. And because I just want to make a great project to have on my resume . Here are some limitations I ran into: The app fails when I want to locate a file from another drive that I share between PCs and doesn't use the NTFS file format. Another thing it could do better is to feel a bit more system intergraded.…
2025 · drimiteros.github.io · its alternatives →
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Viewer for ZenFS in Chrome Devtools
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re Dan and Vaughan, based in Cambridge, UK. We recently launched cunoFS, a filesystem for fast, POSIX object storage access. Yes, we’ve heard that “Object Storage is just not suitable for POSIX workloads” or that “workloads should be rewritten to natively support S3”. But what if it could be? And often much faster than S3-native apps? We’ve worked hard to make this possible, without the shortcomings of other approaches. Summary here: - Run (unmodified) applications with S3/AZ/GCP or “S3 compatible” storage, for example: ls s3:// az://…
2024 · cuno.io · its alternatives →
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If you’ve ever worked with web scraping or automation using Puppeteer or Playwright, you know that running Chrome can be tricky. While headless mode (Chrome with no display) often works, some page elements only render in headed mode, forcing you to run Chrome with a display. This usually means bloating your Dockerfile with complex dependencies like xvfb. Updating your server or Lambda container to handle this can increase costs and lead to dependency hell. The Solution: I’ve built a streamlined solution—a Docker image that runs Chrome with all its necessary dependencies and exposes a FastAPI…
2024 · hub.docker.com · its alternatives →
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I started this as a weekend project and posted it on HN 5 years ago. 300,000 users later, I just released v4 today. Octotree [1] gives GitHub a sidebar that improves file navigation and code/pull request review. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Any comment or feedback is appreciated. [1]: https://www.octotree.io/
2019 · its alternatives →
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Scalable high-performance shared filesystem for S3-compatible object stores and Azure Blob Storage. Faster than Amazon EFS, SoftNAS and GlusterFS. For Linux, EC2, MacOS, as well as SMB and NFS exports. Great for machine learning, cluster computation, simulation, backup and DR, Kubernetes and web ser
2015 · objectivefs.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I wrote Explorer[1] a good few years ago now with the dream of fast dataframes with a dplyr-like API in a really powerful, ergonomic language (Elixir). It's proved pretty successful. Explorer is used in production at my company, and it's my go-to for quick data analysis. But maintaining it became a true albatross. Polars is an amazing project, but the development process is fast and a lot is very focused on the Python lib. We found that trying to maintain Explorer against Polars was a maintenance nightmare and eventually hit points where we had to give up features and found it…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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