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4Open Source·1d ago·all news from July 3, 2026

Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox

WebBrain is a new open-source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that uses AI to automate multi-step web tasks and extract data from webpages. By supporting local model integration through platforms like Ollama, the tool allows users to perform these automations without sending sensitive browsing data to external servers.

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