What is Just the Browser?

Just the Browser is a specialized tool designed to enhance your desktop web browsing experience by stripping away unnecessary AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other potential distractions.

Streamline Your Browsing with Only the Essentials

Its primary goal is to provide you with a streamlined browsing experience that focuses solely on the browser's essential functions. By leveraging hidden settings within web browsers that are typically intended for corporate or organizational use, Just the Browser empowers individual users to reclaim their privacy and control, ensuring their online activities remain unobtrusive and efficient. This approach not only simplifies the browsing environment but also prioritizes user autonomy in a landscape often cluttered with unwanted features and invasive data tracking.

The script titled Just the Browser aims to streamline your web browsing experience by removing unnecessary features. It effectively eliminates various elements, including most AI functionalities, shopping integrations, sponsored content, third-party ads, unwanted pop-ups, prompts, and data collection practices.

The primary objective is to provide a minimalist browsing experience, focusing solely on essential browser functionalities. This is achieved by utilizing hidden settings within web browsers that are typically intended for use by organizations and companies.

What Does Just the Browser Change?

● Most AI features: Features that use generative AI models, either on-device or in the cloud, like Copilot in Microsoft Edge or tab group suggestions in Firefox. The main exception is page translation in Firefox.
● Shopping features: Price tracking, coupon codes, loan integrations, etc.
● Sponsored or third-party content: Suggested articles on the New Tab Page, sponsored site suggestions, etc.
● Default browser reminders: Pop-ups or other prompts that ask you to change the default web browser.
● First-run experiences and data import prompts: Browser welcome screens and their related prompts to import data automatically from other web browsers.
● Telemetry: Data collection by web browsers. Crash reporting is left enabled if the browser (such as Firefox) supports it as a separate option.
● Startup boost: Features that allow web browsers to start with the operating system without explicit permission.

No Plug-Ins Needed

Remarkably, Just the Browser provides all these enhancements to your browsing experience without requiring any additional plug-ins or alterations to your web browser, applications, or executable files. Instead, it modifies group policy configurations, which are traditionally employed by IT administrators to restrict certain features on work or educational computers.

Options for Running Just the Browser

You have some execution options available. You can follow the instructions below or run our file, which provides some options (great for those uncomfortable working in PowerShell).

Windows: Open a PowerShell prompt as Administrator. You can do this by right-clicking the Windows button in the taskbar, then selecting the "Terminal (Admin)" or "PowerShell (Admin)" menu option. Next, copy the command below, paste it into the window (Ctrl+V), and press the Enter/Return key:

    & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/main/main.ps1")))

Mac and Linux: Search for the Terminal in your applications list and open it. Next, copy the command, paste it into the window (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V), and press the Enter/Return key:

    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just

The MajorGeeks download gives you the ability to:

   ● Install Now
   ● View Installer Script in Browser First
   ● Download Script Only
   ● Install from Downloaded Script
   ● Help / What Does This Do?

Geek Verdict

Elevate your desktop web browsing experience with Just the Browser, a tool designed to simplify your online activities and bring clarity to your digital life. Say goodbye to unnecessary AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, and intrusive product integrations. With Just the Browser, you can reclaim control of your online environment, enabling a smoother, more focused browsing experience. Embrace the freedom to navigate the web on your terms.