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ZDNET Highlights
- Strawberry Browser is a new agentive browser.
- With skill, you can make repetitive tasks even simpler.
- These skills can be used for all types of tasks such as shopping.
Strawberry Browser is one of the many agentive browsers popping up everywhere. However, Strawberry Browser includes one useful feature that raises it above the rest.
What is Strawberry Browser?
An agentic browser can act as a traditional browser or take actions on your behalf. It can fill out forms, book reservations, compare prices, make purchases, submit summaries and more. Agent browsers allow you to automate certain tasks, and many can even personalize actions and results based on your browsing history.
Most agentive browsers are based on the open-source Chromium browser (the browser used as the base for Chrome), so you shouldn’t have any trouble with the UI. However, the addition of more advanced AI functionality may cause discomfort to some users. Still, this shouldn’t discourage you from trying out an agentive browser, and one of the newer options is Strawberry Browser.
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Strawberry Browser is designed to automate tasks and increase productivity by integrating AI assistants that perform various online activities and help you build skills for automated, repeatable tasks. Those skills are what sets Strawberry Browser apart from the competition.
What are the skills?
Let’s say you regularly shop online and want to simplify the process. If you frequently shop for shoes, you can develop a skill that checks all the major online shoe retailers and stores for the shoes you describe in the prompt. Once you develop the skill, you can call on him and then ask what type of shoes you are looking for.
For example, you hone your shoe-shopping skills and then type in “Mary Jane flats” or “neutral street running shoes with a 10 mm heel-to-toe drop.” The skill will then apply that input and begin generating a report for any/all items that fit your description.
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It is effective and useful.
Before I show you how to create a skill, we need to discuss the Strawberry Browser’s AI companions.
What are companions?
Strawberry Browser offers various AI companions, and you will want to match the right companion with the right skills. For example, in the shopping skill above, I would like to use the default companion, Lora. However, if I want to build a skill for refining leads, I would choose Sales Sally Companion. Strawberry Browser includes various companions for you to choose from during installation. Those companions include:
- Lora (default companion for general purposes) and a good companion to try first
- Sales Sally (to find high-quality leads, generate personalized outreach, and follow up with prospects)
- Recruiter Ryan (to find talent, create job descriptions, and handle candidate screening)
- Extractor Ala (for extracting structured data, enriching data, and populating Google Sheets)
- Assistant Astrid (for managing your email inbox and calendar as well as preparing for meetings)
- Compete Camilla (to analyze competitive data, track market trends, and learn competitive strategies)
how to develop skills
what you’ll need: To make this work, you need to install Strawberry browser on MacOS or Windows.
Once the Strawberry browser opens, you should see a + button at the bottom middle. Click on that button to create your first skill.
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You can create as many skills as you need.
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Building a skill is quite simple. In the resulting window, give the skill a name (e.g. Shop). In the prompt section, type something like this:
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Search major online retailers for the product mentioned in the query
Make sure to select Lora as the companion, and then click Save.
Congratulations, you have created your first skill.
using your skills
Now is the time to use your skills. Back on the Strawberry Browser start page, click the Skills button at the bottom and select the skill you want to use (or you can type /SKILLNAME in the prompt – where SKILLNAME is the name of the skill). Once the skill is selected, type the content you want to apply to the skill, which might look like this:
/Shop Mary Jane Flats
Strawberry will work on the skill and prepare a report. When the report is complete, you can scroll through to find the exact item you’re looking for.
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Availability
you can download strawberry browser For MacOS and Windows.
Price determination
- FREE – includes 2,000 credits
- Pro – $20/month, 8,000 credits ($10 per additional 1,000 credits)
- Ultra – $250/month, 50,000 credits ($10 per additional 1,000 credits), and dedicated support
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