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camofox-browser (9,309 stars) patches Firefox at the C++ level to spoof hardwareConcurrency, WebGL, AudioContext and WebRTC before JS sees them; lightpanda (34,635) is a from-scratch Zig DOM with V8 and html5ever via FFI; browser-use (112,862, +231 today) drives an existing browser (GitHub Trending). They differ on what part of the stack they throw away rather than on features. Both camofox and lightpanda ship accessibility-snapshot or MCP output instead of raw HTML, which tells you what the consumer is.
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This Chrome/Firefox extension drives your existing authenticated tabs, spins up sandboxed JS notebooks and WASM Linux VMs, and (in preview) shares builds peer-to-peer over WebRTC, with no backend, no telemetry, and bring-your-own-key for Anthropic, OpenRouter, or Ollama (GitHu...
WebMCP in Chrome 146 Canary is flying under the radar but could be transformative. Two APIs: the Declarative API adds tool names/descriptions to existing HTML forms with minimal code changes. The Imperative API handles complex interactions via JavaScript tool schemas (similar...
There's been a fundamental gap in AI coding workflows that's been driving me crazy: your agent writes React components, generates CSS, builds entire UIs, but can't see the result. It's coding blind. The Chrome DevTools MCP server from Google's ChromeDevTools team fixes this, a...
chrome-devtools-mcp isn't another community MCP server with 200 stars and a README that doesn't match the code. It's Google's Chrome DevTools team shipping an official MCP server that gives any coding agent (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor) full access to Chrome DevTool...
cathrynlavery/diagram-design hit #1 on GitHub Trending with 1,616 stars gained in 24 hours (8,520 total, 560 forks, MIT), shipping 27 editorial diagram types as self-contained HTML+SVG, installable via /plugin marketplace add cathrynlavery/diagram-design (GitHub). The pitch is...
v0.10.0 (~84.8k stars, Apache-2.0) ships no agent of its own and drives whichever CLI you already have, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, OpenClaw, Gemini, Kimi, Qwen, Cline, plus BYOK OpenAI-compatible endpoints, via od mcp install <agent>. It produces single-page HTML pro...
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