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feder-cr/AIHawk, originally the resume auto-apply bot, now describes itself as an open-source browser agent on a stealth Firefox that isn't flagged as a bot, isn't blocked and doesn't trigger captchas. 30,678 stars, 4,651 forks, 2 open issues while being pushed today, which at that scale means aggressive triage. The category shift is the finding: anti-bot evasion is being repositioned as general web automation infrastructure.
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Announced September 1, blocking third-party ads and trackers before they load, implemented in the browser because iOS doesn't support extensions the way desktop does (Mozilla). Runs on Apple's WebKit Content Blocker API against EasyList. It doesn't block first-party ads, searc...
Anthropic and Mozilla ran a coordinated two-week security research project in February 2026 where Claude Opus 4.6 scanned roughly 6,000 Firefox C++ files, submitted 112 reports, and identified 22 CVEs. Fourteen were classified high-severity, representing nearly one-fifth of al...
Firefox 148 releases today with a global "Block AI enhancements" toggle and per-feature controls for chatbots, link previews, tab grouping, translations, and alt-text. Mozilla commits to NOT re-enabling AI features once disabled. Also ships WebGPU service worker support and Tr...
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 br...
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...
Anthropic shipped a browser built into Cowork on desktop, so Claude can navigate, read pages, fill forms and gather information while you keep working in your own browser. It never sees your tabs, bookmarks or passwords; you selectively import logins from Chrome, Edge or Firef...
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