OpenAI’s Atlas browser: a new browser, but an old mistake

A smartphone displaying the ChatGPT Atlas browser with a red warning icon and a crossed-out padlock symbol, highlighting security concerns, set against the OpenAI logo in the background.

OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s fast, elegant, and powered by an AI that can explain, summarise, and search across everything you see online. But beneath the excitement lies a quiet omission that repeats one of the web’s oldest mistakes. Atlas launched without support for third-party extensions. No password […]