Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to We launched a new web browser
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
Beacon is an open source web browser built on Chromium that enables users to access decentralized domains on Handshake and .eth DNS addresses. It is designed for developers and users interested in decentralized web… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We launched a new web browser launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Beacon is a privacy and security-focused browser with native DANE support and a decentralized p2p light client.
2021 · impervious.com · its alternatives →
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A gateway to a new, decentralized internet
2017 · blockstack.org · its alternatives →
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2014 · breach.cc · its alternatives →
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A browser to explore a new internet for decentralized apps
2017 · browser.blockstack.com · its alternatives →
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Control the web with prompts (open source)
2025 · browser-use.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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💚🇺🇸🗽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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Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…
2022 · crawlee.dev · 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.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A gateway to a new, decentralized internet
2018 · blockstack.org · 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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Hey all, wanted to share my recent weekend hack project. I wanted to improve upon the existing space for looking up information about IP addresses and ASNs. The backend is written in Rust and pulls BGP data every 8 hours from the RIPE RIS project to build up a routing table and also adds geolocation information. The frontend is using React and Tailwind. Would love any feedback or suggestions on what to improve.
2023 · ip.guide · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're a YC startup building an open-source, privacy-first alternative to Perplexity Comet. No invite system unlike bunch of others – you can download it today from our website or GitHub: https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS --- Why bother building an alternative? We believe browsers will become the new operating systems, where we offload much bunch of our work to AI agents. But these agents will have access to all your sensitive data – emails, docs, on top of your browser history. Open-source, privacy-first alternatives need to exist. We're not a search or ad…
2025 · browseros.com · 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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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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💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Thanks to a new design Next is now available for Linux!: https://next.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org What is Next? Next is a Lisp based productivity focused browser. You can read more about that here: https://next.atlas.engineer/article/the-next-thesis.org You can download a binary from here: https://next.atlas.engineer/download You can view our GitHub here: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next Thanks for your time, I'm very interested in the HN Community feedback, thanks!
2018 · its alternatives →
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browserless.io▲143The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation
2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →
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An example implementation of a tiny Web browser for educational purposes. - lmt-swallow/puppy-browser
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome Devtools Protocol rust API. Contribute to mattsse/chromiumoxide development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · 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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