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Headful browsers, and why headless is not enough
Sites behave differently when no one is watching. A real display, a real GPU and a real window manager make agents dramatically more reliable on the web.
The web notices
Headless Chromium is a fine tool for scraping, but modern applications fingerprint it aggressively. Layout differs, lazy‑loading never triggers, and anything that depends on a visible viewport quietly breaks. Agents that click and read need the same environment a person has.
Every Kernal desktop runs a lightweight window manager and a hardware‑accelerated Chromium with a real framebuffer. You can watch it live, take over with your own mouse, and hand control back.
