A new beta of Blanc, the AI-built web browser, is available for testing – and this one is built directly on top of Chromium. Current versions of Blanc use castLabs’ Electron fork, which bundles the Widevine decryption module so sites like Netflix work. But Electron only includes enough Chromium to display web pages, and less of the mechanics that make a browser a browser. The version of Chromium embedded within Electron lags behind the main release too. Blanc 2.0 rebases on top of Chromium proper. It means the browser no longer needs to rely on custom code for tabs, history […]
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