Theseus Navigator — Silent Mode's Electron browser with the Ariadne resolver built in.
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Users saw a blank window with a white strip across the top for seconds on launch. Root cause: every part of startup, including session restore, waited for chrome.html's did-finish-load. That event also waits for the page's subresources, and the bookmarks bar loads its favicons over bns:// — a BNS lookup plus a network fetch each — so a slow link held the whole boot. On top of that, seven hidden overlay renderers, every restored tab, the BNS index build and three network fetches all started in the same tick and stalled the main thread ~1 s while the toolbar tried to paint. - Continue boot at chrome.html's dom-ready (toolbar scripts have run, IPC listeners exist) instead of did-finish-load; 8 s fallback timer. - Window and chrome view get the toolbar's --bg for the active theme so the pre-paint frame is never white. - Overlay pages (site info, engine picker, downloads, suggestions, password fill, link status, approval) load 250 ms after the toolbar or on first use; the approval modal awaits its page so a dapp request can't hang. - Session restore is staggered: active tab first, then one background tab per 150 ms slotted into its saved strip position. Session file v2 records the active index; v1 arrays still load (active = last, as the old loop effectively did). - AddonHost gains api.whenUiReady(); Aegis 0.6.2 defers its heavy dependency loading (noble precompute, bitcoinjs, libauth, WizardConnect) behind it. - BNS snapshot warm-up still starts right after createWindow (bookmark favicons need it); Sia refresh, update check and home-card fetch move to the post-paint phase. Measured on a clone of the real profile with nine restored tabs: toolbar usable at ~0.7 s instead of ~1.5 s, main-thread stall during toolbar load down from ~1.1 s to ~0.2 s. |
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| dev | ||
| docs | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
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.