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Comment on: Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents

by multidude
Posted: Mar 12, 2026
The stale state problem is real and underappreciated. I've been running browser automation through OpenClaw and the failure modes you describe — modal appears after screenshot, dropdown covers the target element — are exactly what causes silent failures that are hard to debug. The agent "succeeds" from its perspective because it acted on the last known state.The freeze-then-capture approach is interesting. Curious how it handles pages with aggressive anti-bot detection that fingerprints headless Chromium forks — that's the other failure mode I keep hitting.
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