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• Basic browser navigation:

  • Back
  • Forward
  • Reload
  • Browser protocol (peersky://)
  • Home page (peersky://home)
  • Cross browser themeing (browser://theme/)
  • Search engine
    • DuckDuckGo (default)
    • Brave Search
    • Ecosia
    • Kagi
    • Startpage
  • Tabs
    • Vertical tabs toggle

• IPFS protocol handler:

  • Run a local Helia node
  • ipfs:// / ipns:// native URLs support
  • Directory listings support
  • Native ENS domain resolution:
    • Resolve .eth domains directly to IPFS/IPNS content without centralized gateways (e.g., ipfs://vitalik.eth).
    • Local caching for resolved ENS content to enhance performance and reduce RPC calls.

• Hypercore protocol handler:

  • Run a local hyper node
  • hyper:// native URLs support

• Local file:// browsing with P2P publishing:

  • Custom file:// support with privileged access
  • Directory listings (Chrome-style)
  • One-click P2P publishing to:
    • IPFS (ipfs://)
    • Hypercore (hyper://)

• Web3 protocol handler:

  • Run a local web3 protocol node
    • Access on-chain websites.
    • Fetch data from smart contracts using auto, manual, and resource request resolve modes.
    • Query account balances or other data directly from smart contracts.

• P2P Applications:

  • peersky://p2p/chat/
    • Peer-to-peer messaging over Hyper
  • peersky://p2p/upload/
    • Decentralized file storage
  • peersky://p2p/editor/
    • Build and publish websites
  • peersky://p2p/wiki/
    • Browse Wikipedia over IPFS
  • reader.p2plabs.xyz
    • A p2p offline ActivityPub client for reading and following microblogs on the fediverse.

• Electron’s Auto-updater:

  • Download and install the latest release from Github automatically

• Context menu:

  • Back / Forward
  • Reload
  • Inspect
  • Undo / Redo
  • Cut / Copy / Paste
  • Copy Link Address
  • Open Link in New Tab

• Find in page:

  • Search for text within a document or web page

• Window state persistence:

  • Save and restore open windows on app launch

• Keyboard shortcuts:

  • New Window: CommandOrControl+N
  • Back: CommandOrControl+[
  • Forward: CommandOrControl+]
  • Reload: CommandOrControl+R
  • Find in Page: CommandOrControl+F
  • Open Dev Tools: CommandOrControl+Shift+I
  • Focus URL Bar: CommandOrControl+L
  • Minimize: CommandOrControl+M
  • Close: CommandOrControl+W
  • Toggle Full Screen: F11

• Settings (peersky://settings):

  • Switch search engines
  • Set custom home page wallpapers
  • Hide/show the home page clock
  • Change themes
  • Clear browser cache

• Local LLM integration for P2P apps:

  • window.llm APIs (chat + streaming, complete)

  • Trusted-domain exposure (PeerSky-native + allowlist)

  • AI Chat app (peersky://p2p/ai-chat/)

    • Ported from Agregore examples with PeerSky updates

  • P2P Editor integration (peersky://p2p/editor/)

    • New AI generator (ai-generator.js) to generate code with AI

  • 🚧 LLM Memory

    • llm.json to store prompts/responses across P2P apps
    • Reusable History component (P2P editor, AI chat, etc.)
    • Settings toggle to enable/disable memory
    • “Reset P2P Data” also clears llm.json

• 🚧 Web extensions:

  • Ability to add and manage extensions
  • Default extensions
  • Decentralized Extension Distribution

• Bookmarks (peersky://bookmarks):

  • Option to add favourite pages in the nav bar (peersky://bookmarks)

• QR Code generator:

  • Option to generate QR Code for every page in the URL prompt with plan1.

• Archive (peersky://archive):

  • List and showcase published content from peersky://p2p/ apps for enhanced discoverability.
  • Provide metadata (e.g., creation date, content type) to improve navigation and usability.
  • Ability to download all the hashes of published data in a .json file.

Please refer to the Node.js official documentation to install Node.js. Once installed, npm (Node Package Manager) will be available, allowing you to run commands like npx and npm.

• npm: Comes bundled with Node.js. Verify installation by running:

  node -v
  npm -v

npm install

npm start

After development of the browser, run the following command. This will create a production build.

npm run build
# For Intel and Silicon macs

npm run build-all
# For macOS, Linux, and Windows

Now, the dist folder will appear in the root directory.

• Thanks for your interest in contributing to PeerSky Browser. There are many ways you can contribute to the project.
• To start, take a few minutes to read the “contribution guide“.
• We look forward to your pull requests and / or involvement in our issues page.

PeerSky Browser is licensed under the MIT License.