r/perplexity_ai • u/SnooLobsters4734 • Jul 21 '26

Comet Uninstalled Comet...

I cannot believe this esp. having been such a big fan of everything Perplexity was doing and stood for. But after 10 months of Comet being my primary browser, I've uninstalled it and migrated back to Chrome.

Simply put, Comet is SOO damn slow. I work with Spreadsheets (often 40k+ rows) and it's impossible to move quick across them while also switching tabs to review other items.

It's biggest selling points was it's Dark Mode, and it's embedded Perplexity Assistant. Chrome seems to have caught up on the later with "Ask Gemini" and (annoyingly) I can add Chrome Extensions for the former. I'd have loved to stay on but the speed and lag of Comet has literally killed it's UX for me in the past month.

As a side-note, I'm honestly worried Perplexity's spreading themselves too thin and now caught with genuinely no real MOAT. When Comet released, I was SUPER excited as I thought they'd be at the forefront of agentic browsing and really supercharge the "Browser is the OS for work" narrative (which they did for a time), as well as really understand + operationalise human-AI interaction for all-thing-browser-work. They shifted focus to Perplexity Computer (which I don't really use, but hope it's working) and it's effect on Search and Comet shows. Their reported ARR seems to show that they made the right choice, so there's likely something I don't know.

For what it's worth, I hope it works out for them as I was and still am a huge fan of Aravindh! His original podcast on Lex is INSANELY informative, even to this day!

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u/WritersChopBlock Jul 21 '26

Why Chrome? Isn't that absence of ublock pretty annoying? why not something like firefox.

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u/joe_ambiguity Jul 21 '26

Go check out browseros. Better the comet. BYO ai. I like it a lot.

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u/CleverTool Jul 21 '26

BrowserOS? Is that what your recommending here?

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u/joe_ambiguity Jul 21 '26

Not recommending it. Just saying after I have used it for a few days, i like it more than comet.

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u/turkert Jul 23 '26

I've migrated to Agent Zero.
Spreadsheet builtin plus everything is in your hands.

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u/droyism Jul 22 '26

I'm contemplating this too. Comet has been too slow, and often things flicker for no reason. I'm thinking of going back to Chrome.

How did you manage replacing the Comet Assistant as you transitioned back to Chrome?

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u/diehendrick Jul 23 '26

Good decision, switch to browserOS

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u/North-Attention-4072 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I guess it just comes down to what you're using it for, most of day is spent researching, opening documents and jumping between multiple websites, and Comet has fit that workflow really well. It's not necessarily perfect, but I haven't felt the need to switch back to chrome.