This New Ai Browser Lets You Set Up 'skills' To Take On Your Everyday Tasks - How It Works

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Strawberry Browser is simply a caller agentic browser.
• With Skills, you tin make repetitive tasks moreover simpler.
• These skills tin beryllium utilized for each sorts of tasks, specified arsenic shopping.

Strawberry Browser is 1 of nan galore agentic browsers popping up everywhere.  However, Strawberry Browser includes a useful characteristic that elevates it supra nan rest.

What is Strawberry Browser?

An agentic browser tin service arsenic a accepted browser aliases return actions connected your behalf. It tin capable retired forms, book reservations, comparison prices, shop, summarize, and more. Agentic browsers let you to automate definite tasks, and galore tin moreover personalize actions and results based connected your browsing history.

Most agentic browsers are based connected nan open-source Chromium browser (the browser utilized arsenic a instauration for Chrome), truthful you shouldn't person immoderate problem pinch nan UI. However, getting into nan much precocious AI functionality mightiness travel up immoderate users. Still, that shouldn't discourage you from giving an agentic browser a try, and 1 of nan newer options is Strawberry Browser.

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Strawberry Browser is designed to automate tasks and heighten productivity by integrating AI assistants that execute various online activities and thief you create skills for automated, repeatable actions. Those skills are nan characteristic that sets Strawberry Browser isolated from nan competition.

What are skills?

Say you regularly shop online and want to simplify nan process. If you often shop for shoes, you mightiness create a accomplishment that checks each awesome online footwear retailers and shops for nan shoes you picture successful a prompt. Once you've created nan skill, you could telephone it up and past simply query nan type of footwear you're looking for.

For example, you propulsion up your shoe-shopping accomplishment and past type "Mary Jane flats" aliases "neutral roadworthy moving shoes pinch a 10mm heel-to-toe drop." The accomplishment will past use that input and statesman to make a study for any/all items that fresh your description.

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Before I show you really to create a skill, we request to talk Strawberry Browser's AI companions.

What are companions?

Strawberry Browser offers various AI companions, and you'll want to lucifer nan correct companion pinch nan correct skill. For example, successful nan shopping accomplishment above, I'd want to usage nan default companion, Lora. If, however, I wanted to create a Skill to refine leads, I'd prime nan Sales Sally Companion. Strawberry Browser includes various companions for you to prime from during installation. Those companions include:

• Lora (the default companion for wide purposes) and a bully 1 to effort first
• Sales Sally (for uncovering high-quality leads, generating personalized outreach, and pursuing up pinch prospects)
• Recruiter Ryan (for uncovering occupation talent, creating occupation descriptions, and handling campaigner screening)
• Extractor Ella (for extracting system data, enriching data, and populating Google Sheets)
• Assistant Astrid (for managing your email inbox and calendar, arsenic good arsenic prepping meetings)
• Competition Camilla (for analyzing competitor data, search marketplace trends, and learning competitor strategies)

How to create a skill

What you'll need: To make this work, you'll request Strawberry Browser installed connected either MacOS aliases Windows.

You tin create arsenic galore skills arsenic you need.

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Search awesome online retailers for nan merchandise mentioned successful nan query

Make judge to prime Lora arsenic nan Companion, and past click Save.

Congratulations, you've created your first skill.

Using your skill

Now it's clip to usage your skill. Back astatine nan Strawberry Browser Start page, click nan accomplishment fastener astatine nan bottommost and prime nan accomplishment you want to usage (or you tin type /SKILLNAME -- wherever SKILLNAME is nan sanction of nan accomplishment -- successful nan prompt). Once nan accomplishment has been selected, type nan contented you want applied to nan skill, which mightiness look for illustration this:

/shop mary jane flats

Strawberry will enactment connected nan accomplishment and make a report. When nan study is complete, you tin scroll done to find nan cleanable point you've been looking for.

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Availability

You tin download Strawberry browser for MacOS and Windows.

Pricing

• Free - 2,000 credits included
• Pro - $20/month, 8,000 credits ($10 per further 1,000 credits)
• Ultra - $250/month, 50,000 credits ($10 per further 1,000 credits), and dedicated support

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