The side panel as a control surface, not a chat box
Most browsers put the assistant somewhere convenient and call it done. The placement choice is doing more work than it looks. Here is the reasoning.
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Maho vs Vivaldi: two power-user browsers, two centuries
Vivaldi was the first browser that respected the power user. Maho is built for a different decade and a different shape of power. Both are still right.
BYOK vs managed AI: what you give up, what you keep
Managed AI is convenient and opaque. BYOK is transparent and a little more work. The honest tradeoff is not the one the marketing pages describe.
Building an agentic workflow: from search to ticket
Most agentic browser demos stop at the summary. The interesting work starts after the summary, when the agent has to do something with what it just read.
Maho vs Firefox: two takes on user agency
Firefox built the user-agency case for the page-rendering era. Maho is building it for an era where the browser also runs models and tools. Both arguments are still right.