What should the browser of the 2020s be?
The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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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.
Now Even Early Alpha Browsers offer the same experience as Dia
30 votes, 11 comments. 12K subscribers in the diabrowser community. An entirely new environment built on top of a web browser by The Browser Company…
Mozilla’s uncertain future
Some thoughts on Mozilla for people who don’t know Mozilla.
State of JS 2020
The annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Browsers & Standards Work 2026: Call for Community Input
TL;DR: IPFS is planning the next phase of work to make browsers better for the decentralized web – not just IPFS, but any protocol that needs lightweight crypto, peer-to-peer connections, or native browser integration. We need your input on what features matters most. Background: What We’ve Accomplished Over the past 5 years, sustained collaboration with Igalia has delivered real improvements to all major browsers: Ed25519 in WebCrypto API - Shipped in Chrome 137 (May 2025), now available in...
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser
Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.
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.
The State of the Web at Google I/O 2018
The web is a global treasure, and has many strengths we all enjoy. It is a distribution platform like no other, providing people around the ...
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?
