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Posted by cl3misch 1/16/2026

Just the Browser(justthebrowser.com)
560 points | 259 commentspage 3
0xbadcafebee 1/16/2026|

  Search for the Terminal in your applications list and open it.
  Next, copy the below command, paste it into the window (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V), and press the Enter/Return key:

   & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/main/main.ps1")))
This trains Windows users to run random code from the web. You want more malware? Because this is how you spread malware to billions of non-technical users. Please don't normalize dangerous behavior. If you insist on telling people to copy and paste, you could at least add one or two extra lines that check the SHA hash before executing the code.
0xbadcafebee 1/16/2026|
(in case anyone is looking to exploit this: user `corbindarvenport` is available if you want to do some typosquatting)
happyzombies 1/16/2026||
It'll be good to just use the browser again, so I will def be trying this out. But I can't help but feel that for simple dumb questions it's a lot easier to just ask AI bots instead of searching on a web browser. Does this just depend on the context? Example most recently I wanted to know how many miles would a pair of running shoes last. AI can answer this instantly (hooray instant gratification) and googling something like this would take longer. And of course this is why they shove this stuff on the browser.

I guess then, the browser and AI just serve different purposes now?

s0a 1/16/2026||
there are already a bunch of electron and chromium projects that give you just a simple and highly performant browser sandbox.
sigmonsays 1/16/2026||
I dont understand the need for an entire website and shell script installer when all it does is download 1 file and put it somewhere.

For anyone else on firefox, save yourself some effort and just download this https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...

omoikane 1/16/2026|
The website explains each setting that would be turned off, which I find rather informative.
nailer 1/16/2026||
Just give me a Chromium based browser make it open source and a verifiable build and I’ll pay you twenty dollars.
Basketb926 1/16/2026|
Free and open-source browsers based on Chromium: Brave, Dooble, Falkon, Otter, qutebrowser, Supermium, ungoogled-chromium

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Free_an...

nailer 1/16/2026||
I don't want all the extras of Brave, Double seems to really care about it's 2017 release https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ and seems either unmaintained or fake, and I want to ensure the developer can eat.
WhyNotHugo 1/16/2026||
I wish Firefox had a per-user location for policies, so I can just carry it around with dotfiles.
mmooss 1/17/2026|
Aren't preferences stored in per-user JavaScript (text) files?
WhyNotHugo 1/20/2026||
Not quite: they're per-profile, but the path for the profile is not deterministic by default. So you need to first create profiles, exit, and then manually paste the preferences.

I haven't found any way to programatically create profiles.

notenlish 1/16/2026||
What difference does this have compared to something like ungoogled chromium?
sbondaryev 1/16/2026||
Nice touch - seeing the Windows 95 IE favicon took me back for a while.
est 1/16/2026||
can you remove webrtc, localstorage, web workers, and customize fonts?
g947o 1/16/2026|
Half of the websites will stop working if you did that.

And you might as well just fork chromium for that purpose.

account42 1/16/2026|||
Half of the webapps maybe. Actual websites don't have a reason to use any of these features and most don't (except for fonts maybe, but removing those doesn't prevent the website from working).
est 1/16/2026|||
> Half of the websites

Yes browsers should be used for browsing, those half websites can run on something else.

renewiltord 1/16/2026|
Security experts when AI in browser: `curl | sudo sh`
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