Long chats break when the model forgets what you said ten turns ago. Oasis uses optional structured session memory (internal nickname Railroad ) to help follow-ups stay coherent.
Insight for other users: Session memory extracts structured facts across turns and re-injects them into later prompts so the assistant can remember details within your session and plan limits. You do not edit memory by hand. It updates as you chat.
What it is not: Memory is not a full backup of web pages. It is distilled text used to steer replies, not a copy of everything you browsed.
How to work with it:
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Congrats on the iteration! The import flow mentions pulling passwords across from your old browser, and switching browsers, that's always the thing I look at hardest. You mentioned elsewhere that history, bookmarks and semantic indexes stay on-device while the assistant runs on cloud models. Where do imported passwords land in that split: on-device only, and encrypted how? And is the vault inside the same boundary, fully walled off from anything the trainable assistant can see?
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@ferdi_sigona Big thanks for raising this important question!
Short answer: Imported site passwords stay on your device, in Firefox’s Login Manager vault (encrypted at rest). They are not part of the local history/bookmark/semantic-index layer, and the Oasis Assistant has no tool or API path to read the vault. Using the assistant still sends prompts and replies (and sometimes page text or tab URL/title) to cloud models—that’s a separate boundary from the password store.
Long answer on how everything works under the hood:
https://www.producthunt.com/p/kahana/oasis-browser-import-bookmarks-passwords-history-and-autofill-data-from-other-browser
Thanks Adam, that's the answer I was hoping for. Big congrats again!
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@ferdi_sigona Awesome! Glad I could answer that. I appreciate your support 🫡
How do you give users peace of mind when using your AI instead of X or Y?
Do you support self-hosted models?
Also, I noticed the desktop navigation changes the URL, but the pages don’t actually load afterward on your website.
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@gkanev Hey Gabriel, thanks for raising these points.
1. Peace of mind comes from the anonymous experience of using Oasis AI. None of your personal data is collected, only raw prompts and outputs which help us create our own "amplifier" model that seeks to improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of commands for you and the broader userbase. I explain this in detail in this video covering our privacy-first approach to training anonymously. You can also see examples of the exact type of JSON payloads that we receive when you send a prompt and learn more about this in our doc on interaction data.
2. We do not support self-hosted models yet, however, that is something we've been exploring and would be open to focusing on in the next sprints on the roadmap. We would also explore allowing you to use your own API keys for other models. Are there any local models you prefer? I've been using Qwen series off Ollama mostly.
3. I'm having trouble understanding your observation here. Which "desktop navigation" or URL are you referring to? Our main website is [https://kahana.co/] if you could point me to an exact page that is not loading, that would be helpful. Or am I missing something?
Thank you again for checking out our campaign and sharing these questions and observations :)
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1. Thanks for the explanation.
Would love to see it, I’ll be waiting for it.
Youtube video - hopefully it’s already available. The issue I found is that on desktop Chrome (latest version on Mac), clicking menu items changes the URL but the page itself doesn’t load. If you force refresh the page, it works correctly, but only then.
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@gkanev thank you so much for flagging the nav issue on Chrome (Mac), where the URL changed but the page didn’t update until a refresh. Thank you for going to the lengths to record a video. This is next-level feedback and support. I appreciate you so much.
We tracked it down to how the desktop dropdown menu was built (Products, Learn, About, etc.), including links like Oasis Browser in the Products menu. We’ve fixed that and improved how pages load when you click those items.
When you have a chance could you please try again on https://kahana.co/ and let us know if it’s still not working for you?
A hard refresh once (Cmd+Shift+R) is fine if you still have an old tab open.
Things to try:
From any page (e.g. Blog), open Products → click Oasis Browser
Try Learn → Blog and Pricing as well
You should see the URL and the page content change together, without needing a full reload.
Thanks again for reporting it 🫡
Very cool product!
Can't wait to see more.
How is it about the use of resources? Is it not too heavy?
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@fberrez1 Short answer. Yes, it's not too heavy from what we've seen so far!
Testing with 125 internal beta testers so far, we've received 1 mentions so far of Oasis slowing down performance on a device, but we haven't yet pinpointed whether that's an issue with the application itself or the device/user. We’re still early and tuning performance. If you try it and it feels heavy on your machine, we’d love to know your OS and whether the assistant was open. We’re optimizing for “powerful when you need it, quiet when you don’t.”
This version of Oasis is built on Firefox, so day-to-day browsing experience is in the same ballpark as Firefox.
A bit more detail:
Browsing & privacy: History, bookmarks, and semantic search indexes stay on device.
Assistant: Replies are powered by cloud models when you ask Oasis something, so you get capability without keeping a huge local LLM loaded all the time. Though, we have received questions already about supporting local models too
In practice: If the assistant is idle, resource use should feel close to Firefox. When you’re chatting, using voice, or running browser actions through the assistant, you’ll see the usual spikes (CPU/network) you’d expect from AI + automation.
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One thing I genuinely appreciate about Oasis is that it feels like it was designed to help me work, not compete for my attention. The zero ads part makes a bigger difference than I expected because there’s so much less visual noise pulling me in different directions.
I also get distracted pretty easily, and the overall aesthetic feels calm and intentional rather than overwhelming. It actually helps me stay aligned with what I’m supposed to be doing instead of opening 10 tabs and forgetting why I opened them in the first place..
Feels like a browser built to support focus, not distract from it..
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@akansha888 thank you so much for sharing this genuine feedback about Oasis, Akansha. We hate Ad Nauseam, and we are thrilled you feel like Oasis helps you focus and stay aligned. If you have any suggestions for us to double down on this or add new features to help you focus and do deep work in new ways, please let us know! You have no idea how much we appreciation your trying it out, and that you feel this way feels like a miracle to the engineering and product teams :)
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Super excited for launch of Oasis. I’ve worked on this browser from the very beginning, and seeing it reach Product Hunt is a really proud moment.
We set out to build a browser that feels different: no ads, privacy-first by design, and AI-powered ergonomics that help users browse more comfortably and intelligently without adding unnecessary noise.
This has been a product shaped by a simple belief: the browser should work for the user, not against them. Can’t wait for people to try Oasis and hear what they think.
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@aj0671 You know more than anyone how much work has gone into this, and it's an honor to go to war with you today, Atharva. I just wanted to take a moment here and thank you for all that you've done for Oasis, from hooking up wires, to refreshing the most obscure ui and branding assets, to building the next wave of privacy-first ai features in browsing. You're a great engineer, and I'm so proud to work alongside you and have this moment where we can showcase all that we've poured in.
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Congrats on the launch! Been using Oasis for a bit and the voice control is the part that actually stuck for me. I keep catching myself reaching for it instead of opening new tabs or copy-pasting between sites. Feels like browsing finally caught up to the rest of the AI shift. Excited for everything still on the roadmap.
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@pournami_pottekat that's crazy! The same thing happened to me recently. I had my hands tied while eating a snack and watching TV, and I remembered I could just speak and say "Open Github in a new tab", and then the voice-to-text worked smoothly and Github opened. It was pretty insane lol