# Two decades of almost total dominance by the Chrome browser ended all at once. No dramatic announcements, no regulatory scandal. Simply thanks to one thing - AI.

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Two decades of almost total dominance by the Chrome browser ended all at once. No dramatic announcements, no regulatory scandal. Simply thanks to one thing - AI.

Suddenly, the technological frontier of the browser, the most basic tool for digital work, moved in a new direction - agentic browsers (Agentic Browsers). Ones that contain smart assistants that understand the context, know their way around what you're doing, and respond accordingly.

And it's an experience that's easy to get addicted to. A chatbot inside the browser that knows how to search and do whatever it's told, smoothly. If ChatGPT knows how to answer questions, an agentic browser can also show them in the browser, and create a synergistic browsing experience between you and the artificial intelligence.

Opera recently announced Neon - a fully agentic AI browser that is capable of performing complex tasks, writing code, booking flights or building websites on request. 
For now the browser is still closed to the public, but you can join the Opera Neon waitlist now on the official site:  operaneon.com

When such an opportunity arises, an opportunity also arises for additional new players who have entered the arena:

Comet from Perplexity - a new AI browser with independent action capabilities, content summarization, and smart assistance throughout the browsing. 
Sign up via: perplexity.ai/comet  

Dia from The Browser Company - the successor to Arc, with a built-in Agent that talks to the browser and performs tasks by itself. 
Early sign-up via: thebrowser.company/dia

Even Microsoft, which was a laughing stock for years with the late Explorer browser, hurried to come out with an agentic Edge browser, which quietly but consistently presents interesting integrations of interaction with artificial intelligence. And the truth is they do it in a very impressive way.

You can activate Copilot Mode in the Edge browser today through the settings or through the link:  
aka.ms/copilotmode

I personally tried it and recommend you do too, just to feel the experience. I'm a little envious right now of everyone using Microsoft's 360 tools together with their browser. That's something Microsoft has always succeeded at, providing a collection of complementary products under one roof. And its intimate relationship with OpenAI only helps it.

On the Chrome side, Google offers Gemini inside the browser, and AI Mode in the search bar. These are impressive integrations, but still not an agentic browser. It doesn't act on its own, but responds when invited. A first try is possible through labs.google.com/search  
or through Chrome settings on supported computers.
Unfortunately, it's still not there.

The feeling is that what was true in the past is still valid: when the paradigm changes, the rules reset. Back to the 90s - the late Netscape browser was pushed aside by Microsoft's Explorer browser, which was crushed by the Chrome browser for a considerable period. And now, the next browser doesn't have to be only fast, but also smart, present and helpful.

This trend is not unique to browsers. VSCode, which seemed unassailable, is now challenged by Cursor - a collaborative and intelligent development environment, and in the world of building websites tools like Bolt and Lovable arise that offer an AI-guided creation process, and dramatically reduce the room for errors and delays.

It's not only about technology, but about the question of what an interface is. What does the tool we spend most hours of the day in look like, and how does it work with us.

It may be that in a moment we'll go back to Chrome. But for the first time in years, there's a feeling that it's allowed to ask anew: which browser do you open when you start working - and why that one in particular.

Original: https://ofershap.github.io/posts/agentic-browsers-reset-the-browser-market/
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Published: 2025-08-14T09:30:14.276000+03:00