Tabs keep emitting events while the window is torn down: a hovered
link fires update-target-url, which positioned the link-status pill
against win.getContentBounds() on a destroyed window ("Object has been
destroyed", 2026-09-27). With installed web apps the browser window can
now close while their windows keep the process alive, so this stops
being a quit-time blip and becomes a normal state.
The overlay helpers and layout() now check the window is alive, the
session is captured on close (the quit-time save no longer overwrites it
with an empty list once the tabs are gone), and "closed" drops every
reference to the window's views. A later createWindow() starts from a
clean tab list, so a page opened from an app window after the browser
window was closed brings the window back with the restored session.
The browser — the consumer face of the stack. Native .bch support with the
resolver built in, so a user installs one app instead of modifying their
operating system. Named for the thread through the labyrinth: the chain is the
thread.
Scope
Electron shell (Chromium engine, no forking): tabs, address bar, history.
In-process .bch resolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS
trust-store changes; reuses bns.js from the BNS repo as a library.
Record handling: h render, ip connect, p/s3 via in-app gateway,
u redirect.
TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron setCertificateVerifyProc) against the
BNS root / on-chain tls fingerprints — no OS store touched.
Provenance indicator: shows whether a page came from the chain / Sia / a
direct server, with NFT category and record type — the decentralized padlock.
Status: not started
Build it in its own session/repo. The ready-to-paste brief is
BROWSER-PROMPT.md (a reference copy in this folder; canonical source is
D:\Dev\NameCoin\BROWSER-PROMPT.md — if they diverge, NameCoin wins). It points
here and reuses the resolver core. theseus.bch is registered and should
eventually serve the browser's own homepage over the protocol it implements.
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