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Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.

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You can already do what you're looking for by reading the browser cache as new data is cached. This would allow you to see the site as it was loaded originally, instead of simply fetching an updated view from a URL. The data layout for the cache in Firefox and Chrome is available online.

Does the cache store the rendered DOM?

They'd probably reject that idea under some bullshit privacy or security excuse Wayland-like reasoning. Also why we don't have XUL extensions anymore and why they'll eventually copy chrome on that manifest crap.

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