Editor’s Note: Norton said on Tuesday, Dec. 2, that the Norton Neo browser is available to download and try without a waitlist. The original story, published May 22, 2025, continues.

For years, the URL bar in your browser has done double duty: you can enter a web address, sure, but you can also use it to enter search requests. Now Norton has a new “free” browser, Neo, which adds a third function: AI prompting.

Norton—most famous for its antimalware solutions like Norton 360 Deluxe —is entering the browser market with Norton Neo, an AI-first browser that you can sign up for and join the waitlist. Norton already ships a browser, the Norton Private Browser , which is similar but lacks AI.

Neo replaces the search/URL bar with what it calls the “magic box,” where you can “search, gen

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