@quanruzhuoxiu: Often asked: What's the difference between Midscene and Browser-Use? Both are open-source, both use vision, both solve their respective problems. Here's an honest comparison, not to bash Browser-Use. Browser-Use is a web agent, positioned as "open the browser, get this done…"
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A comparison of Midscene and Browser-Use, two open-source tools with different focuses: Browser-Use is a web agent for one-time tasks, while Midscene is a vision SDK designed for reliable multi-platform repeated execution.
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Midscene.js
AI-powered, vision-driven UI automation for every platform.
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@quanruzhuoxiu: Over the two years of developing Midscene.js, we made a belated but critical decision: UI automation will sooner or later shift from 'understanding the DOM' to 'looking at the screen'. So in the December 1.0 release, we directly cut the DOM compatibility path. In the early days, like everyone else, we followed a DOM + visual hybrid approach...
The Midscene.js team decided to completely shift from a DOM + visual hybrid approach to pure visual UI automation, believing that future UI automation must be based on screenshots rather than the DOM. This change reduced token consumption and simplified cross-platform adaptation.
@quanruzhuoxiu: When using Midscene's Computer Agent, desktop automation runs headless in Linux CI. Everyone assumes desktop UI automation must use a real machine or VM, so Mac/Windows desktop E2E can only run locally and cannot enter CI. Result...
Midscene's Computer Agent enables desktop UI automation to run headless in Linux CI, automated via xvfb-run, without needing a real machine or VM, and supports Electron, Qt, and GTK applications.
@geekbb: A terminal TUI tool written in Rust by the Browser-use team. You tell it what to do in natural language, and it controls the browser to accomplish it. Self-developed LLM engine plus Chrome's CDP protocol, supports running with your logged-in Chrome, headless browser, or Browser ...
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@quanruzhuoxiu: My favorite design in Midscene.js is actually not the AI part, but the HTML replay report. Every time a script runs, it automatically generates a single-file HTML report containing: - Screenshots of each step - Full prompt input to the model - JSON output from the model (...
Midscene.js's HTML replay report design helps developers quickly locate the cause of AI automation failures through the triple combination of screenshots, prompt, and model output.
@MingruiZhang: One question to @browser_use 's new Terminal Agent, 122% of my context window spent https://github.com/browser-use/term…
Browser Use Terminal is a Rust TUI for browser agents that allows users to automate browser tasks from the terminal with a new LLM harness that is 2x cheaper and 2x faster than Browser Harness.