Theseus Navigator — Silent Mode's Electron browser with the Ariadne resolver built in.
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Session restore no longer loads any page on launch. In 0.3.63 the strip was built from saved titles + favicons and only the previously-active tab's URL was navigated at startup, so a 20-tab session cost one renderer load instead of twenty — but that one load is still a real page, often the heaviest one in the whole session, and it fought every other startup task for the main thread while the window sat not-responding. Now every restored tab, the previously-active one included, comes up dormant: zero page renderers at launch, no page starts loading until the user asks for a specific tab (clicks the chip, hits reload, types in the URL bar). The previously-active tab stays highlighted in the strip so one click brings it back; the content area sits with the tab's own background colour until that click. RAM-at- launch is now just the chrome, the overlays and the strip — a 500 MB saved page never materialises as a renderer the user did not even ask to see. A pending tab that is navigated explicitly (URL bar, link, search) drops its saved URL at the top of navigateTab, so a later reload or chip click can't snap it back. Quick-links strip default set is now Telegram, WhatsApp, X, YouTube — in that order. Messenger and Spotify are out of the default; users who want them can still add them via Settings › General › Quick links. Existing installs whose list still matches the previous untouched default (same six ids in the same order) migrate on next launch; any customisation (reorder, add, remove) is left alone. |
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| addon-build/docx-editor | ||
| bundled-addons | ||
| dev | ||
| docs | ||
| engine-icons | ||
| lib | ||
| nsis | ||
| scripts | ||
| snapshots | ||
| addon-inject-preload.js | ||
| addon-tab-preload.js | ||
| addon-update-pubkeys.js | ||
| addon-updater.js | ||
| addons-host.js | ||
| address-picker-preload.js | ||
| address-picker.html | ||
| approval-preload.js | ||
| approval.html | ||
| auth-prompt-preload.js | ||
| auth-prompt.html | ||
| bcnr-origin.js | ||
| bcnr-preload.js | ||
| BROWSER-PROMPT.md | ||
| chrome.html | ||
| collision-preload.js | ||
| collision.html | ||
| DESIGN-integrated-wallet.md | ||
| DESIGN-password-manager.md | ||
| DESIGN-wallet-multi-account-amendment.md | ||
| downloads-preload.js | ||
| downloads.html | ||
| engine-picker-preload.js | ||
| engine-picker.html | ||
| error-preload.js | ||
| error.html | ||
| GOTCHAS.md | ||
| home-preload.js | ||
| home.html | ||
| js-dialog-preload.js | ||
| js-dialog.html | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| link-status-preload.js | ||
| link-status.html | ||
| main.js | ||
| messages-preload.js | ||
| messages.html | ||
| package-lock.json | ||
| package.json | ||
| PACKAGING-PROMPT.md | ||
| PENDING.md | ||
| popover-preload.js | ||
| popover.html | ||
| preload.js | ||
| pw-fill-preload.js | ||
| pw-fill.html | ||
| quicklinks-preload.js | ||
| quicklinks.html | ||
| README.md | ||
| RELEASE-HANDOFF.md | ||
| ROADMAP-identity-wallet.md | ||
| SESSION-PROMPT-identity-wallet.md | ||
| settings-preload.js | ||
| settings.html | ||
| sidebar-preload.js | ||
| test-installer.wsb | ||
| THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md | ||
| TRADEMARKS.md | ||
| webapps.js | ||
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
.bchresolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS trust-store changes; reusesbns.jsfrom the BNS repo as a library. - Record handling:
hrender,ipconnect,p/s3via in-app gateway,uredirect. - TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron
setCertificateVerifyProc) against the BNS root / on-chaintlsfingerprints — 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.