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

by mahendra0203
Posted: Mar 12, 2026
Freezing JS execution between actions is the kind of obvious idea that nobody did properly untill now. Kudos for actually forking Chromium instead of hacking around Playwright like everybody else.But here's my thought: you're solving the "stale state" problem by making the browser deterministic. Real websites aren't deterministic. WebSOcket pushes, long-polling, background fetches, animations that don't finish — freezing execution doesn't pause the server. The moment you unfreeze, the world may have moved.90.5% on Mind2Web is great. But Mind2Web tasks are mostly "fill a form, click submit." The brutal failures happen on SPAs with optimistic UI updates, where the DOM says "saved" but the network request hasn't finished. Does ABP handle that case, or does the freeze just delay the confusion?Genuine question — not trying to tear this down. The architecture is smart. I just wonder if "make the browser simpler for the agent", eventually hit s a wall where you need to make the agent smarter about async instead.
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