There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn't be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar.
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?
The AI browser wars are about to begin
Artificial intelligence is already writing an obituary for the internet as we know it. So why is everyone building new web browsers?
Open tabs are cognitive spaces
Nobody actually wants to use a web browser. It becomes evident the second you open your browser and notice that you don’t have internet connection. What we like about browsers is what they offer on the other side. What they connect us to. In that sense, browsers are transitory spaces - similar to airports, planes and train stations. Most of us have lost our childish curiosity towards these spaces - we go there because we want to arrive somewhere else. Arriving somewhere else with early browsers was quite one-dimensional - you clicked your way from one website to the next, in the same window. You surfed. You bookmarked the pages that you wanted to return to. Later, as the web became richer, you sometimes had more than one browser window open. I vividly remember having seven Internet Explorer windows open, thinking to myself “this is way too much to keep track of!”. Right now, my Firefox has 477 tabs open. How could this happen? Tabs are externalized cognition
What is a Browser?
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | Hacker News
If you say browser developers need money from the search giant to compete in browser development, you are saying that - right now - you can't compete in browser development without it.
About Browser Choice Allliance
The issue Microsoft’s deceptive tacticsimpede consumer choiceFor years, Microsoft has manipulated desktop browser choice, using deceptive tactics to push Edge onto users. Instead of competing on quality, it relies on forced resets, misleading prompts, and hidden settings to trap people into using its browser. Every time Microsoft forces, pushes or…
Where Browsers Come From
In this post, I’ll talk about the evolution of the economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.
Embedding The Web
We need to talk more The web is much more than browsers. What works great in browser development is missing in related spaces like embedding. Can we get together to collectively describe security and compatibility properties of user agents that are not browsers? Can we develop things that don’t ...
How might a browser be developed?
There’s a confluence of things that have happened recently that have made me question how browsers might be developed: On January 8th 2026, Simon Willison predicted that someone will build a browser using mainly AI-assisted tools within 3 years On January 27th 2026, one human and one agent built a browser from scratch (great experiments) On the 19th February 2026, news came out that Taalas had a chip that can spit out nearly 17,000 tokens per second by baking a model onto the chip. I would like to indulge in a little bit of projection and in my case, some science fiction of my own.
What Comes After Chrome
I co-created the world's most popular browser. Now, I'm joining The Browser Co to fulfill an old dream.
Forget the Fate of Chrome, Focus on the Fate of the Browser
In debating what undoubtedly won't happen, we're looking past some key things that are -- and might...
The Browser Choice Alliance
The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their browser of choice on Windows devices.
Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers
Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers and contribute to the continued d…
The True Cost of Browser Innovation: Why Chrome's Divestiture Wouldn't End the Open Web
It is crucial for the public to understand that the web’s growth and innovation need not depend on Google’s monopoly or control, writes Alissa Cooper.
Quiche Browser — Beautifully customizable web browser
An independent, private, and transparent browser built by a passionate maker. Thoughtfully designed customization options and quality-of-life improvements without sacrificing ease of use. Established browsers can’t compare.
