Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App (theverge.com)
(Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:40PM (msmash)
from the tabs-are-so-'90s dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/2022257/google-is-building-an-experimental-new-browser-and-a-new-kind-of-web-app
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/842000/google-disco-browser-ai-experiment
Google's Chrome team has [1]built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thursday as an experiment in Google's Search Labs.
GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it creates a flashcard system. Disco -- named partly for fun and partly as shorthand for "discovery" -- started as a hackathon project inside Google before catching the team's imagination.
Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome team, said that Disco is [2]not intended as a general-purpose browser and is not an attempt to cannibalize Chrome. The experiment aims to test what happens when users move from simply having tabs to generating personalized, curated applications on demand. The capability relies on features in the recently launched Gemini 3, which can create one-off interactive interfaces and build miniature apps on the fly rather than just returning text or images.
[1] https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/gentabs-gemini-3/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/tech/842000/google-disco-browser-ai-experiment
GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it creates a flashcard system. Disco -- named partly for fun and partly as shorthand for "discovery" -- started as a hackathon project inside Google before catching the team's imagination.
Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome team, said that Disco is [2]not intended as a general-purpose browser and is not an attempt to cannibalize Chrome. The experiment aims to test what happens when users move from simply having tabs to generating personalized, curated applications on demand. The capability relies on features in the recently launched Gemini 3, which can create one-off interactive interfaces and build miniature apps on the fly rather than just returning text or images.
[1] https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/gentabs-gemini-3/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/tech/842000/google-disco-browser-ai-experiment
probably without ad block... (Score:3)
by daninaustin ( 985354 )
No thanks... I already switched away from Google Chrome due to all the ads and spying.
Re: Ask for porn and... (Score:2)
by ZERO1ZERO ( 948669 )
If they did something that did this for free they would have majority market share over night.(probably) Then they could enshittyfy it
Security nightmare (Score:4, Insightful)
by Gavino ( 560149 )
Normalising running on-the-fly generated AI code - what could possibly go wrong?
Tab-vertising (Score:2)
by devslash0 ( 4203435 )
How many of tabs will be the actually helpful, not-sponsored content? 1 out of 10?
Title correction: (Score:2)
by Sebby ( 238625 )
> Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App
World's Top Privacy Rapist is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Privacy Raping App
There FTFY.
Re: Title correction: (Score:2)
by devslash0 ( 4203435 )
That's a bit of a stretch, don't you think? ...a stretch at the back.
Sorry but... (Score:2)
by nospam007 ( 722110 ) *
...about 1% of the population will think that "Disco" is for 'Discovery'.
The programmers must be 17 or so.
Sounds like a cancer (Score:2)
That will eat Chrome from the inside.