Re:Perplexity Comet
by bachittle on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:19PM
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AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Re:Perplexity Comet
by Spartan-S63 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:23PM
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I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
Re:Perplexity Comet
by poisonborz on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:52PM
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Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
Re:Perplexity Comet
by pjm331 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:30PM
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a landing page about a new browser and then...
> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.
a bunch of facts about planets?
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me
Re:Perplexity Comet
by kveykva on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:31PM
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The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
Re:Perplexity Comet
by pona-a on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:06PM
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This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.
They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.
Re:Perplexity Comet
by bicepjai on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:23PM
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I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
Re:Perplexity Comet
by Alifatisk on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:26AM
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This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"
Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth
Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not
[1] https://ladybird.org
Launch site feels busy, though.
[1] https://kagi.com/orion/
Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/)
> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.
a bunch of facts about planets?
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me
Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.
Finally, some truth in marketing!
you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit
Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?
I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.
They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.
I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.
http://kagi.com/
What are we doing here?
Automated trekking bag purchasing.
Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth
Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not
Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot.
You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on.
It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished.
The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3].
[1]: https://www.diabrowser.com
[2]: https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery
[3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc