BrowserBee
AI
browser agent
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How HN took it
8 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Privacy: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple UI
From 1 comment
This looks really well done. I particularly like the simple user interface. A lot of the time these things are unnecessarily complex I feel.
jaggs on HN
Works well with Ollama and multiple models
From 2 comments
Very nice. I tried with Ollama and it works well. The biggest issue is having the Ollama models hardcoded to Qwen3 and Llama 3.1. I imagine most Ollama users have their…
matula on HNLooks great! Tried a few examples and models, works very well.
afshinmeh on HN
Objections
Sends page content to the LLM, so 'privacy-first' is questioned
From 3 comments
yes, the LLM can invoke observation tools (e.g. read the text/DOM or take a screenshot) to retrieve the context it needs to take the next action
parsabg on HNSo maybe something we want to be mindful of before using this on banking, health, etc. How is it “privacy-first” then if it literally sends all your shit to the LLM?
barbazoo on HNWhat makes it privacy first? Shouldn't it use local llm then? Does it send my password to a provider when it signs up to a website for me?
hoppp on HN
Token usage and cost are high for web tasks
From 2 comments
Looks like the example video is extremely expensive. It racks up almost 2$ of usage in about a minute.
reliablereason on HNGood spot. I probably shouldn't have the 2nd most expensive model in the demo! Some of the cheaper models have very similar performance at a fraction of a cost, or indeed you…
parsabg on HN
Struggles with DOM parsing on complex tasks
From 1 comment
Thanks for building this! It struggled with tasks I asked for (e.g. download the March and April invoices for my GitHub org "myorg") -- it got errors parsing the DOM and…
tnjm on HN
Gemini 2.5 and OpenAI models error out
From 2 comments
I keep getting the "Error: Failed to stream response from [Gemini | OpenAi] API. Please try again." - tried valid new keys from both google/openai
saadshamim on HNah yea 2.0 flash is working. 2.5 doesn't and OpenAi 4.0 and mini models dont work either. The error message should probably say to try other models because i was pretty confused
saadshamim on HN
Requests
Firefox support
From 2 comments
Looks great. Any plans for this to work in Firefox?
donclark on HNLooks amazing. Would love something like this in Firefox or Zen. Mozilla released Orbit, but it was never something that ended up really being useful.
dbdoskey on HN
Reduce DOM tokens sent to the LLM
From 2 comments
You might be able to reduce the amount of information sent to the LLM by 100 fold if you use a stacking context. Here is an example of one made available on Github (not mine).…
dataviz1000 on HNpossibly something like https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown could also help for this use case.
kanzure on HN
Saved and templated sessions
From 1 comment
Looks amazing, love it. And I see that in your roadmap the top thing is saving/replaying sessions Related to that, I'd suggest also adding the ability to "templify" sessions, ie.…
nico on HN
Custom Ollama model configuration
From 1 comment
Very nice. I tried with Ollama and it works well. The biggest issue is having the Ollama models hardcoded to Qwen3 and Llama 3.1. I imagine most Ollama users have their…
matula on HN
Questions
Does it send page content to the LLM?
From 1 comment
> Since BrowserBee runs entirely within your browser (with the exception of the LLM), it can safely interact with logged-in websites, like your social media accounts or email,…
barbazoo on HN
How does it fill forms and interact with the page?
From 2 comments
How does it do so? Just DOM manipulation, viewport scanning or something of the sort?
0xd1r on HNCan it perform DOM manipilation as well, like fill forms or would the LLM response need to be structured for each specific site to use it on? And would an LLM be able to perform…
0xd1r on HN
Alternatives named
Browser Use
From 2 comments
Here are some ideas on how to cache selectors for reuse and get all the text to use with full text search to find clickable elements slow but still faster than a round trip to a…
dataviz1000 on HNThanks for building this! It struggled with tasks I asked for (e.g. download the March and April invoices for my GitHub org "myorg") -- it got errors parsing the DOM and…
tnjm on HN
Playwright MCP
From 1 comment
You might be able to reduce the amount of information sent to the LLM by 100 fold if you use a stacking context. Here is an example of one made available on Github (not mine).…
dataviz1000 on HN
Cline
From 1 comment
uBlock Origin
From 1 comment
uBlock Origin will do this for free
reustle on HN
Firefox AI sidebar
From 1 comment
Firefox already has something similar natively, but it's not enabled by default. If you turn on the new sidebar they have an AI panel, which basically looks like an iframe to the…
tux3 on HN