Boss key, screenshot, interceptor.
The set of tools that go beyond "browse a webpage": pause requests like Burp, pop a clean screenshot with redactions, and the F9 panic switch that turns every Husk window into a calculator.
Boss key (F9)
Press F9 from anywhere inside Husk. Every Husk
window across every running profile flips to a calculator:
- Window title becomes Calculator.
- The chrome and content are replaced by a working calculator UI.
- Taskbar icon and Alt-Tab preview swap to the calculator look.
- Any audio playing in tabs is muted.
Press F9 again to flip back. The boss state is
shared across Husk processes via named Windows events, so a
single keypress flips multiple windows simultaneously.
Limits
- Memory. Boss key hides the visual surface of Husk; it doesn't unload tabs or clear the WebView. A memory snapshot of the process still contains the page you were on.
- Network. In-flight requests continue during boss mode (the calculator is a UI overlay, not a kill switch). For a hard stop, close the tab before triggering boss key.
Screenshot tool
Click the screenshot icon in the chrome bar, or press the configured shortcut. Two modes:
- Full page — captures the entire scroll height, not just the visible viewport.
- Rectangle — drag to select a region. Escape cancels.
Built-in editor
The screenshot opens in a small editor with three tools:
- Crop — trim out the parts you don't want to share.
- Arrows — point at things, multi-color.
- Redact — solid blocks over sensitive text. Use this before sharing anything.
Save the result to disk (default HuskData/screenshots/)
or copy to clipboard. The OpenInExplorer action validates
the path against the configured screenshots directory before
opening, so a tampered settings file can't make Husk open
arbitrary system folders.
Request interceptor
A Burp-style request-and-response interceptor, built into the chrome. Toggle the intercept switch in the chrome bar; from that point onward every request and fetch / XHR response pauses in a chrome panel before the page sees it.
- Pause & edit — modify URL, headers, body, and forward.
- Drop — kill the request silently. The page sees a network error.
- Forward as-is — let it through unchanged.
- Replay — re-send a previous request, with edits.
Sensitive header redaction
Cookie,
Authorization, X-API-Key,
X-Auth-Token are redacted before the request
is surfaced to the interceptor UI. You see the URL, method,
path and other headers — but the secret value is replaced by
a placeholder. The real value still travels to the server
unchanged.
Pop-out window
The interceptor can run in its own window. Drag tab traffic into a second monitor while keeping the main browser focused on the page you're testing.
Cookie editor
Per-site, accessible from the shield icon. View, edit, or wipe individual cookies for the current origin. Useful for clearing a sticky tracker without losing every other session on the browser.
Paranoia tabs
A stricter mode applied per-tab: paranoia tabs lose access to certain JS APIs (clipboard read, page-visibility backgrounding tricks, some sensor APIs) and the activity counter only ticks on user-initiated events. Use it when you're loading something you'd rather not have the site observe in detail.
Wipe
Each profile has a "wipe everything" action in its menu. Wipe asks for the phrase (for encrypted profiles), then securely overwrites the materialized state with zeros before removing the encrypted blob. After a wipe the profile is gone — no recovery.