WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by the W3C and consists of two separate specifications: WebDriver classic (HTTP) and the new WebDriver BiDi (Bi-Directional).
Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents | Hacker News
Check out this video to see it in action: https://preview.screen.studio/share/r1h4DuAk. There are lots more demos at https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use on how we control the web with prompts.
FOSDEM 2025 - The Firefox AI Platform
Learn how the privacy-preserving local inference runtime works in Firefox Desktop, our current use cases and how to create your own features using the Experimental Web Extension API.
The HotJava Browser: A White Paper
Browsers allow people to treat the data spread across the Internet as a cohesive whole. Web browsers integrate the function of fetching the data with figuring out what it is and displaying it. One of the most important file types browsers understand is the hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML allows text data objects to embed simple formatting information and references to other objects.
AT Protocol Handler – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download AT Protocol Handler for Firefox. AT Protocol Handler This extension lets you handle and open at:// URLs seamlessly in your browser by listing compatible sites. Originally developed for Chrome, this version supports Firefox with full protocol handler integration.
AT Protocol Handler – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download AT Protocol Handler for Firefox. AT Protocol Handler This extension lets you handle and open at:// URLs seamlessly in your browser by listing compatible sites. Originally developed for Chrome, this version supports Firefox with full protocol handler integration.
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steel-dev/steel-browser
🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.
Browsertech Digest
An email digest about modern browser technology and the things people build with it. We’re talking WebAssembly, WebRTC, WebGL, WebGPU, WebSockets, WebCodecs, WebTransport, Web-everything. Written by Paul Butler of Jamsocket. We also host Browsertech events in NYC and SF. Talk browsertech in real time on #browsertech in the Jamsocket Discord.
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
Browser Use - The way AI uses the internet
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I spent all of Christmas reverse engineering Claude Chrome so it would work with remote browsers. Here's how Anthropic taught Claude how to browse the web (1/7) pic.twitter.com/kBJA1DUWxA— Paul Klein IV (@pk_iv) December 29, 2025
Why build a new browser? From intuition to reality - Blog | Lightpanda
Three years ago when we started Lightpanda, we asked ourselves a seemingly simple question what would a browser look like if it were built specifically for automation?
