Comet Browser Is Just 2 Chrome Extensions?

3 thecautiousdan 4 7/10/2025, 8:31:11 PM

got off the waitlist today and was excited to install. had a look under the hood and I see in my application folder theirs two chrome extensions already installed, “Comet Agent” and “Comet”. Seems the browser just using the extension apis to take actions on my page. Will see if there’s anything else I can find. Back to chrome for now

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mattl · 1d ago

Can you tell me the user agent string for the browser? https://whatmyuseragent.com

thecautiousdan · 1d ago

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

thecautiousdan · 1d ago

the extensions are in the Default/Extensions folder along with my other extensions

mattl · 1d ago

They're not even trying to make a browser it seems.

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Comet Browser Is Just 2 Chrome Extensions?

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