ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver….

BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS is a privacy-first alternative browser, based on Chromium, reimagined for the AI era. For me, the fact that BrowserOS is open-source makes it stand out.  More than that, BrowserOS uses on-device agents, so you don’t have to worry that a third party will have access to your queries or data. That feature alone makes BrowserOS worth using over the competition (I’m very much in favor of local AI).  You can run a query on BrowserOS using natural language, and it then works with local AI agents to break down the query and perform the necessary actions. This feature can be used for scraping websites and extracting data, comparing product prices across different online retailers, and filling out forms and organizing information into a spreadsheet…”