Two reasons the Plug-ins card looked dead ("only a Refresh button"):
1. The state check ran Get-ScheduledTask, whose module import took 8–10 s
cold, and only then fetched the release manifest. Every button is hidden
during "checking…", so for 10–15 s the card showed nothing but Refresh.
Task state now comes from the Task Scheduler COM object (numeric, locale-
independent — schtasks.exe prints localized words on non-English
Windows) and the manifest fetch runs in parallel: ~2 s.
2. The Inno installer's AppId is written as {{…}}, which Inno registers as
{…}}_is1 (doubled closing brace). Theseus looked for the single-brace
key, never found it, and so never knew the installed version — no Update
button, no Uninstall button. The entry is now found by DisplayName.
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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