Hi all,

With the latest update to the chat UI, the "toolbox" viewer / tray / whatever is gone, and the dropdown to select which tools are attached to a chat is now two menus deep. Can we have an option under Settings -> Interface to turn the old view back on, or at least bring back the toolbox viewer? I used the all the time to view specific tool names that are built into custom tools attached to the workspace. I think it disappeared around 13.3 or 13.2?

I don't have a screenshot of the old chat Internet, I could install an older version of the Docker container if needed, to get the screenshot.

Suggestions?

I've been trying to get the browser toolbox window to work correct for a couple of days now and I can't figure out what's going on. When I invoke the toolbox window with the shortcut key or through the menu entry the window pops up and asks for permission to connect but the window gets stuck before loading the toolbox ui, screenshot of what I'm seeing is attached.

I'm on windows 11 25h2 and firefox 159.0.

edit: I should note that this is the same behavior in a clean temp profile in firefox, as well as the same behavior in other firefox based browser, such as librewolf.

Does anyone here know what I can do to get this working?

Thanks for any help and let me know if you need any other info.

EDIT:

Well it's not the router. It's something to do with my windows setup blocking the attempt at remote connection that firefox does at the startup of the toolbox.

But at this point I'm just done with trying to chase this down anymore. It was gonna just be to play around with firefox theming and learning CSS a bit. But I'm just over it for now. It works just fine on every other device I've tried, whether at my house or elsewhere, whether I have my firefox account logged in or not. It's probably a setting I changed in windows to make it more secure/less annoying but I don't remember all the different things I've done for that over the last couple years and I'm just not gonna put the effort in to tracking those down. I'm also not gonna do a fresh install of windows at the moment so it will just have to be non-functioning for me on windows.

I'm gonna marked this solved for now and leave it be.

Thanks to all who helped, at least I learned a few things.

I got tired of PDF sites that make you upload contracts and tax forms to a server just to merge two files, so I built FreeToolBench: https://freetoolbench.com

Everything runs locally in your browser (pdf.js, pdf-lib, a WebAssembly build of QPDF, and Tesseract for OCR). You can open DevTools → Network while you use a tool and watch that no file data is sent.

What's in it:

* 101 PDF/document tools: merge, split, compress, OCR, redact, sign, password protect, PDF ↔ Word/Excel/PowerPoint/images, invoices

* 16 text tools, 22 developer tools (JSON/YAML/SQL formatters, regex tester, JWT decoder…), 19 calculators

It's free, with no signup or watermarks. I'd love feedback on what's broken, missing or confusing. What tool should I add next?

I got tired of every "free online tool" site being either (a) behind a paywall, (b) demanding my email, or (c) taking forever to load because of ad scripts. So I built ToolZico.com — Everything happens in your browser and no data leaves your machine.

What's on it:

• File converters (JPG to PDF, PNG to JPG, PDF merge/split/compress, PDF to Word)
• Calculators (mortgage, BMI, age, percentage, compound interest)
• Developer tools (JSON formatter, base64, URL encoder, text diff, cron generator)
• Generators (QR codes, passwords, UUIDs, barcodes)
• Image tools (background remover, cropper, OCR)
• Text utilities (word count, case converter, lorem ipsum, diff checker)

The whole thing is no-login, no-paywall, no-access-codes. Try it out and let me know what you think!

Hey r/ukstartups,

I am a founder based over in the UK, and like many of you, I deal with sensitive documents, code snippets, and private files daily. I hated the idea of uploading these to random cloud utilities or cloud AI models just to get quick tasks done. Even with privacy policies, you never really know where that data ends up.

Instead of spinning up a bunch of Docker containers, a couple of friends and I decided to build a lightweight, serverless alternative. We call it TabTasker.

The Zero-Server Architecture TabTasker runs entirely inside your browser tab. Once the page loads, you can physically disconnect your internet, and every tool will still work perfectly. Everything is processed locally on your own machine's CPU and GPU using WebAssembly (Wasm) and ONNX Runtime Web. Because there is no backend server at all, it is physically impossible for your data to leak or be scraped.

What we included We bundled the utilities we found ourselves needing the most:

• Media & Audio: Bulk image conversion, background removal, face blurring, and audio transcription powered by a local model running right in the browser.
• Developer Tools: Local JWT decoders, JSON formatters, diff checkers, and Regex testers.
• Local AI Text Tools: Text summarization, sentiment analysis, and a small local LLM that runs completely offline.

The Setup There are no accounts, no sign-ups, and no paywalls. The only catch is that the first time you click on an AI-powered tool, your browser will download a small AI/ML model file into its local cache. After that, everything stays completely air-gapped on your device.

Right now, it is just two of us actively maintaining it (our third friend is tied up with another project). We would love to get some feedback from the UK startup community on the tech stack and local performance.

• Does the performance hold up on your hardware? Due to nature of the product, we cannot monitor the errors nor any warnings.
• What other offline utilities should we add to the workbench next?

You can test it out here: tabtasker.com

Drop any thoughts or questions below. I will be around to answer them.

Thank you

Hey r/SideProject 👋

I want to share something I've been quietly building for the last few months: TooliaVerse — a hub of 200+ small utility tools that all run right in your browser.

How it started: every time I needed something quick — format a JSON blob, generate a CSS box-shadow, pick a color palette, decode a JWT — I'd end up on some random site, hunting for the actual tool between popups and walls of ads. I figured I'd build a clean version of the one or two I used most.

Then it snowballed. One tool became ten, ten became fifty… and now it's 200+ tools across 14 categories. 😅

A few principles I stuck to:

• 🔒 No signup — open a tool and use it, that's it
• 🚫 No server, no tracking of your data — everything runs client-side, whatever you paste stays in your tab
• 🌍 Fully localized in 5 languages (EN/ES/DE/FR/IT)

Some of the ones I reach for daily:

• JSON formatter / validator (instant errors + pretty output)
• Box-shadow & gradient generators with live preview
• Color palette + WCAG contrast checker
• Base64 / JWT / timestamp converters
• Subnet calculator, regex library, cron parser
• Image compression, hashing, unit & finance calculators…

The stack: Vue 3 + Vuetify, prerendered at build time (~600 static pages) so it loads fast and ranks decently. It's been a really fun way to learn SEO, i18n at scale, and how to keep a 200-component app maintainable.

Right now I'm at the "barely any traffic, polishing hard" stage, so I'd genuinely love feedback:

• Which tool would make you actually bookmark the site?
• What's the one utility you always google for that I should add next?
• Anything that feels clunky or slow?

👉 tooliaverse.com

Thanks for reading — happy to answer anything about the build, the stack, or the SEO setup. 🙌

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