- Per-tab page zoom on Chrome's ladder (25–500 %) via setZoomFactor, so
Chromium keys it per host: every tab on a site shares the level and it
persists across navigations and restarts. Ctrl +/=/numpad+ in,
Ctrl -/numpad- out, Ctrl 0 reset, Ctrl+wheel via zoom-changed. A
percentage chip appears in the address bar when a tab isn't at 100 %;
clicking it resets. Settings and add-on tabs never zoom.
- Address bar / search bar drag ratio floor lowered from 30 % to 20 %,
so the split runs 80/20 to 20/80 (pixel floors still apply).
- The collapsed extension-dock button and its dropdown printed a data:
URI icon as text ("data:image/svg+xml…"). One addonIconHtml() renderer
now serves the dock buttons, the collapsed button and the dropdown.
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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