Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet

Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by felarof on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:39PM (#44526919)

IIRC, Firefox's web extension API does not provide access to accessibility tree as well.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by dotancohen on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:17PM (#44527501)

I'm not GP, but I agree that if your goal is to empower the end user and protect him from corporate overlords, then Firefox is a more logical choice to fork from.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by axus on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:28PM (#44527891)

I wonder if someone on the Chromium team will upstream all these BrowserOS changes, or "Not Invented Here" and re-implement it all for Gemini / Google Assistant.

Can't imagine Firefox acquiring a Firefox fork!

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by dotancohen on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:10AM (#44528314)

The hooks needed for integration will probably be implemented in Chrome, not Chromium. Nobody else should have them.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by esperent on Friday July 11, 2025 @02:35AM (#44528989)

Isn't the Firefox code notoriously hard to fork and work with? I'm sure that nearly all of these Chrome forks would prefer to fork Firefox, but there's a reason they don't.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by layer8 on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:22AM (#44530889)

The reason they usually don't is for better compatibility with more web pages.

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