On October 21, 2025, OpenAI released a new product: Atlas, which flooded social media timelines.
Many people have already praised it or created tutorials on how to use it. There's no denying that it has some good aspects, but this article briefly lists the points that I find uncomfortable or dislike.
1. Can only import configurations from Safari and Google Chrome
Does not support other browsers, such as Edge, Arc, Firefox...
2. The menu interaction in the top-right corner is a bit abstract
The main menu trigger is click, but the submenu trigger is hover, and clicking on a submenu item closes the entire menu. This easily leads to users making ineffective clicks, wasting time.
3. No way to batch pin browser extensions, have to activate them one by one
4. Not allowed to modify the position of devtools
This is Atlas
This is other browsers
5. Rewrote the right-click context menu
This causes some browser extensions to be unusable (such as Wucai, Raindrop's highlighting feature)
6. Sometimes when activating browser extensions, cannot open popup
For example, my 1Password can never open, and cannot paste passwords, making it unusable
7. Cannot set browser configurations or use debugging features
For example, the WebGL engine, and cannot enable mobile debugging pages
Sometimes you need to access chrome://flags like in Google Chrome and set "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to OpenGL.
Or access chrome://inspect#devices to debug devices
But in Atlas: atlas://settings, atlas://flags, atlas://inspect#devices are all inaccessible
Overall, while it has made innovations in AI integration and interaction, this product is too closed off, even removing some common features and configurations of browsers themselves.
If you rely heavily on browser extensions to enhance your browsing experience, or if you're a developer, I don't recommend using Atlas as your main browser.
If you're not in the above situations and want to use ChatGPT for page information processing and learning (such as reading documentation, explaining the meaning of selected content), or want to try the agent mode (doing some automated operations), then you can give Atlas a try.
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