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Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by leepowers »

Love the concept. My only blocker for adoption is being able to import bookmarks from Firefox into Bonsai.

Feedback and ideas:

1) On macOS Catalina - can't Cmd+Tab out of full-screen.

2) Bookmarks import.

3) Search somewhere other than Google. Would love to be able to define a set of URLs to hit, instead of being limited to https://www.google.com/search?q=...

4) Search within pages. In addition to search engines. So if I export my bookmarks to an HTML file, I could search that file. Or if I could search within local documentation that's not online.

5) Collab workspaces. A team could share a workspace that defines the same search engines and documents.

6) Window size other than fullscreen.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by raunak »

itwy wrote: post #87
dubcanada wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP is saying browser extensions don't work. Not that LastPass doesn't work with the browser.

And I am saying Bitwarden is not tied to a web browser - it has a desktop client.

You assume most people have the patience to copy paste passwords from Bitwarden rather than the ease of Lastpass - just doesn't work for 99% of the population.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

ziroshima wrote: post #92

Pretty cool. Looks somewhat similar to Dash ( https://kapeli.com/dash )

The problem with Dash is that the guy is a creep. He’s also gotten quite greedy, with new versions with only minor changes every year since he was kicked out of the App Store (for one of his lesser creeps).

There are a bunch of clones, however. The format has become somewhat of a standard.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by sundarurfriend »

DavideNL wrote: post #55
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tab groups do that, unless I'm missing something. Probably not as good, but again, why do an entire browser?

Because, looking at the demo, it can do a lot more than what you can achieve with tab groups…

Could you mention what? As they said, the shortcut to bring to front is OS configuration and spatial organization is in tab groups addons (though without arbitrary spatial locations), and the fuzzy find seems similar to what Vimium provides. I'm open to the idea that there's value in grouping such features together - but unless I'm missing some other feature, this seems much better implemented (and has a better chance to be long term supported) as a Firefox profile with those addons installed and perhaps a tiny program to capture the shortcut and execute that Firefox profile.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by prirai »

baktubi wrote: post #94
Arisaka1 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Today I decided to check out the state of Microsoft Edge after installing Windows 11 and it felt like I am fighting the browser to stop throwing stuff on me in order to focus and just do the work I want to do. News section, sports, suggestions flooded me. The address bar tapping both bookmarks and history spits a dozen lines on every keypress assuming things. I'm not even diagnosed with ADHD and I'm still tired that…

Alas, the state of the tech advertising industry… Honestly, it’s all so exhausting I’m just so damn tired. You can’t even buy an OS anymore that isn’t loaded to the brim with bloat and spyware—provided BY THE MANUFACTURER nonetheless. Honestly, once Windows ten is end Of life I’m done with tech industry. I’ll go to the library and read some books; I’ll use a pen/pencil; I’ll wander, blissfully into the sunset.

Why, there's Linux.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by xyos »

BMFXX wrote: post #72

I actually really love that there's more people focusing on this problem. Its one a friend of mine also tried to address, with https://enterflow.app/ As someone with extreme ADHD, this has made my life so much easier and reduced my tab clutter. I love how this is so hot-key rich, I think like everyone else has kind of mentioned I wish we had chrome extensions, last pass, editthiscookie etc. It's the pro vs con of goi…

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