LLM Chat and Hub are distractions

[Emre Şafak (esafak)]

Unless they can interact with the page, they are the same as opening a tab, and you can do that with any browser. The other browsers now have discreet buttons to open an AI sidebar too, even though that adds nothing either. I can do the same thing by just pinning the site...

I see there's a button to copy the content of the page, and this is a start but it's weak. What about the ability to snapshot (portions of) the page and send that too?

The Agent feature is the only one that counts since it can interact with sites.

[Nikhil (shadowfax92)]

Emre Şafak (@esafak) Yeah totally agree. Today, there is not much value as sidebar for LLM chat. Our plan is to get following:

• Make it even more simpler or one-click to auto-inject page context into LLM.
• Screenshot. Yes, I'm actually building this!

LLM Hub today opens as it's own window. would opening as a tab make more sense? or window is fine? Would love to understand the value each of them adds.

[Emre Şafak (esafak)]

Hub reminds of those old sites that run queries on multiple search engines; e.g., for travel, so you get the lowest price. I'd get rid of it.

[Nikhil (shadowfax92)]

Emre Şafak (@esafak) screenshot in LLM is now supported in latest release! - https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS/releases/tag/v0.15.0

[Nikhil (shadowfax92)]

Coming back to this with an honest update, since you and I (above) already agreed the bare sidebar didn't add much. We've leaned hard into exactly your point: the Agent — the part that can actually act on the page — is the center of the product, and that's where almost all the work has gone (it's on v3+ now). The page-context injection and screenshots-into-chat I said I was building did land.

The "Hub as its own window" question I raised back then basically resolved itself toward "the value is in acting on pages, not in being one more place to open a chat tab," and we've been trimming the bits that were just distractions (we recently pulled an unsupported Hub toolbar setting, for instance).

So: you were right, and the product moved your way. Closing this since it's well and truly addressed — thanks for the early, blunt feedback, it was the correct read.