BrowserShell

A shell for your browser — tabs, bookmarks, history, and AI as commands.

BrowserShell is a keyboard-driven terminal for Chrome. Press ` (backtick) on any page to open a Quake-style overlay and manage your browser with shell commands — no menus, no context switching. WHAT IT DOES • Toggle a full terminal overlay on any webpage (` or Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+K) • Run 88 built-in commands for tabs, windows, bookmarks, history, downloads, and page inspection • Browse browser state like a filesystem: ls /tabs, cd /bookmarks, cat /history • Pipe and filter output: tabs | grep github, history | head • Click numbered rows to run follow-up commands (e.g. tab switch 3, downloads show 1) • Self-documenting: help, man <cmd>, apropos <term>, tab completion • Privacy tools: siteinfo, forget (with --dry-run), permissions • Optional on-device AI via Chrome's built-in AI when you run ai summarize EXAMPLE COMMANDS tabs # list open tabs tab switch 3 # focus tab 3 go github.com # navigate active tab history search react # search browsing history bookmark search docs # find bookmarks links # list links on the current page forget --dry-run # preview site data deletion siteinfo # privacy footprint for current site WHO IT'S FOR Power users, developers, and anyone who thinks the browser should have a shell — not another popup or settings maze. PRIVACY BrowserShell runs entirely in your browser. No accounts, no analytics, no external servers. Browser data is accessed only when you run a command. Settings and shell history are stored locally in chrome.storage.local. Full privacy policy: https://jamalyusuf.github.io/BrowserShell/legal/privacy-policy/ Open source (MIT): https://github.com/jamalyusuf/browsershell