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BrowserBox Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to BrowserBox
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SurveyJS
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ArchiveBox
š Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
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windmill
Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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touchHLE
High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps. This repo is used for issues, releases and CI. Submit patches at: https://review.gerrithub.io/admin/repos/touchHLE/touchHLE
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DownloadNet
Discontinued š¾ dn - offline full-text search and archiving for your Chromium-based browser. [Moved to: https://github.com/dosyago/dn]
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action-tmate
Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.
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BrowserBoxPro
Discontinued :cyclone: BrowserBox is Web application virtualization via zero trust remote browser isolation and secure document gateway technology. Embed secure unrestricted webviews on any device in a regular webpage. Multiplayer embeddable browsers, open source! [Moved to: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox]
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ViewFinder
Discontinued :camera: ViewFinder - NodeJS product to make the browser into a web app. WTF RBI. CBII. Remote browser isolation, embeddable browserview, secure chrome saas. Licenses, managed, self-hosted. Like S2, WebGap, Bromium, Authentic8, Menlo Security and Broadcom, but open source with free live demos available now! Also, integrated RBI/CDR with CDR from https://github.com/dosyago/p2%2e [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS] (by c9fe)
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Viewfinder
Discontinued š· BrowserBox - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity. Run on our cloud, or bring your own. Full scope double reverse web proxy with multi-tab, mobile-ready browser UI frontend. Plus co-browsing, advanced adaptive streaming, secure document viewing and more! But only in the Pro version. Get BB today! Secure your document needs and internet, today! [Moved to: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox]
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB ā Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Ask HN: Does anyone else like purely numeric shorthashes?
they're not Particularly Rare, But I think they're more pleasing to See.
For instance This "2822302" Makes me Especially Happy: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/commit/2822302387c4cb7ff71c4239da3dc5fa4c07e165
It Even Extends up to 10 digits! That's Not Particularly rare - Roughly 1% chance (10^10/16^10 i think) - But i just think they look nice.
Are there any other people out there who are particularly pleased when they hit that? sorta like hitting 7777 on the odometer, or whatever.
I'm also a fan of the purely Numeric Identifiers Twitter/X Uses (and has for ages).
This all reminds Me of That "commit Fuzzing tool" That Can Make Your log have whatever Commit You Want. asked AI, turns out it's: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
Lucky Commit! what a perfect name. i guess this ask hN should be: does anyone else like lucky commits?
BTW the sHA has of this message starts with: 20250327
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Ask HN: Why are there no open-source Remote Browser Isolation solutions?
So Remote Browser Isolation is basically remote desktop for the browser: There is a browser running on a server, with the image streamed to the client on a canvas. There are a lot of commercial offerings (Cloudflare, Proofpoint, Zscaler, BrowserBox), but strangely nothing open-source.
~2 years ago, BrowserBox was trending on HN [0] and went open-source shortly after [1]. However, they have since walked back on this and made it fully commercial again. Today, they replaced the README with something which is, dare I say, deranged: . I assume their commercialization efforts have not gone as planned, hence the desperation.
Back to my question: Why are there no open-source Remote Browser Isolation solutions? Is this simply a space that's uniquely "enterprise" with entrenched players, with no room for smaller projects to strive?
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35490289
- Show HN: CloudTabs Remote Browser Platform
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Caniwebview.com ā Like Caniuse but for Webviews
This is great. I want to add WebWebView to the list and show 100% compatibility, because we run Chrome on the server and open a portal to it via an iframe. You can see it running here: https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_sessions and code here: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox - But we have yet to release a developer API. Seeing this, we will double our efforts!
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Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser ā a web browser on every website
Is that right? Could be a recent acquire if it's DOM mirroring.
I heard CF acquired S2 a few years ago, and what S2 did is they created a WebAssembly binary that composited the browser SKIA draw instructions on the client, and streamed the SKIA draw instructions from the server. Not without its issues, but certainly useful.
What we do is just stream pixels to the client. Yes it's expensive in terms of bandwidth, relatively. But the advantage is simplicity. And with a close server and bandwidth trending faster and cheaper, with the increasing drive to video consumption across media, I don't see bandwidth as an issue.
If you're interested, our code is on GitHub: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
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Show HN: An embeddable browserview, like hyper beam with source code
Click through for a version on a server close to you that you can play with now.
Source code here: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
This demo is probably not really ready for a widespread audience, but luck it Iām just posting it anyway
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Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
> Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there.
True. Maybe I should have put a full disclosure? I thought it was obvious, but I get if it wasn't. I'm sorry for not being more clear!
It's a good point to advise people to avoid entering important credentials in something that probably looks untrusted. I'd also advise that at this stage as we have no SLAs for now, and are just testing this SaaS-to-be demo of this source-available product:
https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Thank you for pointing out the reasonable and important security concerns. Although I should have probably done that myself, I was just so eager to help!
Aside: I am surprised tho that you were unable to even login on your VPN. I would think that the IP blocks we run the browser form and those of a VPN would be in the same category of 'cloud IPs', so why should it work on CloudTabs but fail for you directly on a VPN? Who knows?
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Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway
These are difficult problems and perhaps the modern web has developed at a pace that older tech like RDP has not kept pace with. But Guacamole bucks that trend. The video shows how far it has come.
Guacamole is good, and I love that it's clientles and works in the browsers, but VNC lacks sound so you need to do that separately. Also the input lag when remote frames increase in frequency is challenging.
If you're looking for something lighter weight and possibly smoother and faster (albeit non-free software with a non-commercial option), check out BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Solving input lag, and maintaining responsiveness across a range of bandwidth situations has been one of our priorities and I think we've mostly achieved.
We've accomplished this through a combination of sensible heuristics for congestion control, and using WebRTC with a fallback to WebSockets when faster. We also have audio out of the box, no set up required!
However there's always room to improve, which is why it makes it so exciting to work on. Depending on how close you are to a server you may encounter lag issues, too. Check out a free live demo of it working here (sorry, signup is not supported yet!):
https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session
Some other problems we solve that are not always so easy to configure with Guacamole (and are harder to do with an RDP layer in general), but much easier for us as we virtualize the browser itself are first class mobile support.
Obviously that's an issue with remoting desktops from small form devices in general, but if a browser is all you need remotely then we got your back! :)
Same time, BrowserBox will not be for everyone. It all depends on what you need. Get on touch if you are interested!
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Kernel Hardening ā Protect Linux User Accounts Against Brute Force Attacks
Run your browser on a remote machine? Using say BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Full disclaimer: my company develops it.
- BrowserBox goes source-available, drops AGPL
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