Navigation base, the way Firefox does about:preferences#privacy: the
address bar follows the Settings page (theseus://settings/privacy) and
the hash mirrors it, so every page has a link; a page can have
sub-pages (theseus://settings/privacy/exceptions) with a breadcrumb and
a back arrow; open-settings and theseus:// links accept the two-level
slug.
Privacy now reads top-down: a "Theseus is on guard" card (Shield and
its running total, cookie pop-ups answered, Tor state, version), then
Tracking protection with the Shield and Cookie Pop-ups cards moved here
from Performance and a Manage exceptions sub-page listing the sites
each add-on was told to leave alone (remove to protect again), then
Device access, Anti-fingerprinting, Network (Tor switch and the VPN
panel) and Browsing data. Performance is about resources again.
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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