It’s only been a few days since we highlighted the previous Tabbit update, and now we’re already getting another one, though this time the change most people will actually feel is that the browser’s AI finally stops choking on file types it used to wave away.

With version 1.8, you can hand it .py, .sql, .log, and .svg files, and it reads them properly, so dropping in a Python script or a database query no longer gets you a polite non-answer.

Meanwhile, there’s a big improvement for scanned PDFs too. If you’ve ever tried to get an AI to make sense of a crooked, photocopied document, you know it usually falls apart, and Tabbit reckons it’s fixed a lot of that with what it calls “dramatically improved results on scanned PDFs.”

It’s not the sort of feature that makes for a splashy demo the way the webpage-building tool from version 1.7 did, but it’s a nice quality-of-life improvement.

Getting files in front of the AI is easier too, because there’s now an @ shortcut that lets you point it at stuff sitting on your own machine, and Tabbit says pulling in webpages works more reliably than it did before. The upshot is that you spend less time wrestling the thing into looking at the right context.

That context question runs through the whole update, and Tabbit’s take is that sometimes you’d rather the AI knew less. The company said as much in its own post, that “AI context is useful, until it isn’t,” which is why there’s now a Disconnect Reference button tucked in the sidebar. Hit it and the AI quits using whatever page you’re staring at as background, which is a small mercy when you’re on something you’d rather it didn’t peek at.

The rest is smaller but welcome. You can search your entire chat history with real text search now, so a conversation from three weeks ago isn’t gone for good, and any links the AI gives you open in your current tab by default instead of flinging open new ones, though you can switch that back in settings if it bugs you.

That said, if you’ve tried Tabbit but it doesn’t work for you, I’ve also put together a piece on the two best AI browsers worth considering. You can read that here.

But if the folks at Tabbit continue with the refinements and feature additions they’ve been pulling off, it might just become another serious pick for the best AI-powered browsers out there.

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