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Blanc 2.0 beta swaps Electron for Chromium

A beta of Blanc 2.0, the AI-built web browser, is now available for testing, rebuilt directly on Chromium instead of castLabs' Electron fork used by current Blanc versions. The rebase means Blanc 2.0 no longer relies on its own code for tabs, history and other browser features, reducing the amount of code the developer and his token spend need to build. The existing Electron base included Widevine so sites like Netflix work, but Electron ships only enough Chromium to display web pages, not the pieces that make a browser a browser.

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A new beta of Blanc, the AI-built web browser, is available for testing – and this one is built directly on Chromium. Current versions of Blanc use castLabs’ Electron fork, which includes Widevine so sites like Netflix work. But Electron only includes enough Chromium to display web pages, and not so many of the pieces that make a browser a browser. Blanc 2.0 rebases on Chromium proper. That means it no longer needs to rely on its own code for tabs, history and other features, which reduces the amount of code the developer (and his token spend) need to build […]

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