Theseus Navigator — Silent Mode's Electron browser with the Ariadne resolver built in.
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Local Dev ace5f7a33e Ship Theseus 0.0.5 606529ea (search fix + link-hover status bar)
Setup   606529ea9f1de9dc1ec5012534dda31b06919245f19f934ee1b9f4f10385a5bc
Portable ed89547a155e998278beccf21f9807841ac6267f75cdcbbead81b80acfee0adc

Fixes:
- Classic form-GET search engines (Google, Brave, Bing, Startpage,
  Yandex, Ecosia, Mojeek, ...) now show results. The tab's
  will-navigate intercept was dropping the query string on every
  dotted-host navigation, so /search?q=foo landed on /search. DDG
  only appeared to work because its in-page search uses pushState +
  XHR and never triggered will-navigate.
- Address bar reflects the target URL immediately on Enter instead
  of showing the previous page's URL until did-navigate fires.

New:
- Link-hover status bar: Firefox / Chrome-style pill at the bottom-
  left of the window showing the href when the pointer is over a
  link, hidden when it leaves. Auto-sizes to text, cleared on tab
  switch, tracks window resize.

Also on-VPS: bns-gateway auto-index directory paths (f43ec61) so
silentmode.bch/tools/ returns the tools page instead of NoSuchKey.

Deployed:
- scp installers + releases-manifest.json to /opt/silent-mode/dl/
- scp tools/index.html + releases/index.html to /opt/silent-mode/site/
- sia-upload of ../site to bns/silentmode/
- verified: HEAD 200 on both installers, manifest reports 0.0.5,
  silentmode.st/tools shows the 0.0.5 buttons, Sia mirror ditto.

The 0.0.4 update-check chip should now surface itself for existing
installs on their next launch.
2026-08-29 22:30:36 +02:00
dev Resolver 3438d558: ASCII-clean install.ps1 + multi-TLD NRPT + VPS-first electrum 2026-07-31 23:09:23 +02:00
lib Hermes: optional bind to password vault (skip the second mnemonic prompt) 2026-08-19 00:38:52 +02:00
address-picker-preload.js Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
address-picker.html Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
BROWSER-PROMPT.md Initial commit — Silent Mode baseline (2026-07-29) 2026-07-29 13:54:34 +02:00
chrome.html Theseus 0.0.4: cheap in-app update-check chip 2026-08-28 20:21:44 +02:00
collision-preload.js Collision modes (BCNR/ICANN) + root TLD cert + VPS electrum-source indexer 2026-08-02 11:39:00 +02:00
collision.html Theseus: in-tab collision prompt + toggle-style switcher + auto-switch 2026-08-02 14:43:31 +02:00
DESIGN-password-manager.md Snapshot in-progress work: Ariadne mobile, Theseus password manager, Hephaestus 2026-08-14 23:17:18 +02:00
downloads-preload.js Theseus: download tracker, search split, discover-more tier, UX polish 2026-08-02 15:31:47 +02:00
downloads.html Theseus: download tracker, search split, discover-more tier, UX polish 2026-08-02 15:31:47 +02:00
engine-picker-preload.js Theseus: Firefox-style search picker (favicons, catalog, scan) 2026-07-30 22:55:52 +02:00
engine-picker.html Theseus: download tracker, search split, discover-more tier, UX polish 2026-08-02 15:31:47 +02:00
GOTCHAS.md docs: VPS is SilentMode (not Coinspectrum); sketch storage-as-product roadmap 2026-08-18 03:21:03 +02:00
home-preload.js Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
home.html Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
link-status-preload.js Theseus: link-hover status bar (bottom-left href pill) 2026-08-29 15:49:30 +02:00
link-status.html Theseus: link-hover status bar (bottom-left href pill) 2026-08-29 15:49:30 +02:00
main.js Theseus: preserve query on link-navigation intercept + immediate address-bar reflect 2026-08-29 22:22:47 +02:00
messages-preload.js Hermes: optional bind to password vault (skip the second mnemonic prompt) 2026-08-19 00:38:52 +02:00
messages.html Hermes: optional bind to password vault (skip the second mnemonic prompt) 2026-08-19 00:38:52 +02:00
package-lock.json Hermes: wire NIP-17 messaging into Theseus, provision chipnet hermes.bch 2026-08-18 20:14:43 +02:00
package.json Ship Theseus 0.0.5 606529ea (search fix + link-hover status bar) 2026-08-29 22:30:36 +02:00
PACKAGING-PROMPT.md Initial commit — Silent Mode baseline (2026-07-29) 2026-07-29 13:54:34 +02:00
PENDING.md Ship Theseus 0.0.2 b62ecf52 (shield green + picker→Search + toggle refactor) 2026-08-06 01:55:46 +02:00
popover-preload.js Collision modes (BCNR/ICANN) + root TLD cert + VPS electrum-source indexer 2026-08-02 11:39:00 +02:00
popover.html Theseus UX polish: BCDN/BCNR terminology + soft-mode prompt redesign 2026-08-02 13:02:47 +02:00
preload.js Theseus 0.0.4: cheap in-app update-check chip 2026-08-28 20:21:44 +02:00
pw-fill-preload.js Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
pw-fill.html Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
README.md Initial commit — Silent Mode baseline (2026-07-29) 2026-07-29 13:54:34 +02:00
RELEASE-HANDOFF.md Ship Theseus 0.0.2 (SameSite cookie shim) 2026-08-05 18:51:16 +02:00
ROADMAP-identity-wallet.md Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
SESSION-PROMPT-identity-wallet.md Theseus UX batch: tabs, address history, password autofill MVP, home cards 2026-08-17 02:17:12 +02:00
settings-preload.js Snapshot in-progress work: Ariadne mobile, Theseus password manager, Hephaestus 2026-08-14 23:17:18 +02:00
settings.html Snapshot in-progress work: Ariadne mobile, Theseus password manager, Hephaestus 2026-08-14 23:17:18 +02:00

Theseus Navigator

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.

Roadmap

BUILD-ROADMAP.md Stage 5.