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

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Love it, this is the most innovative thing in the browser space for a long while. It's baffling to me how boring most 'new' browsers are - most propositions are 'like X but with less friction on these 2 or 3 things'.

I hate that it's only for Mac so far, but glad to see others are on the way. I've been thinking about picking up a cheap older mac for development work, though, and this is one more reason in favor.

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

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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.

A password manager integrated with a browser can offer more security, because it can verify the domain to prevent copy-pasting the password into a phishing site.

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

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Thinking about how to achieve some of these features in Firefox 1. An extension like Tree Style Tabs, but in a dedicated tab, which is pinned to the first tab, so easily accessible with `Alt+1`. 2. A keyboard shortcut for detaching the tab (via something like Tridactyl) and then resizing it using a tiling window manager. 2 is easy to achieve, if 1 does not yet exist in some form I might build it someday.

And I too prefer Firefox with Tree Style Tabs, been using that for years.

In general similar setups are not uncommon on Linux with tiling window managers. Probably the reason this app is available for Mac only. :)

Setting up a nice environment takes time, it doesn't come out of the box. So it is good to see people trying to come up with ready solutions.

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

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What types of things do you run in your OS that you think would be useful to group like this?

Terminals with man pages, REPLs experimenting with different libraries, PDF readers with documentation, browser windows — lots of things.

Hey Cameron. Here's another vote for PDF. With regards to additional applications I can strongly recommend adding as a first-class use case electronics design where summoning, displaying, comparing and extracting data from electronic parts datasheets is a huge part of workflow. Specific parts of these documents are typically the focus - eg. schematics, physical package drawings, tables. Adding a local (non-cloud) feature to auto-identify or quick scroll-through those to show them larger without manual zoom/repositioning as per current PDF viewer workflows would win many loyal users and should be feasible to build based upon open source OCR layout analysis engines such as tesseract. You may also consider for UI/UX purposes creating either voice input datasheet and/or a popup search box with bangs: !datasheet , !diagram ...

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

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What I really want is a browser that displays information in a clear, unified format that I can customize to my liking. I want this browser to disregard all visual HTML and CSS rendering, and rather instrument a headless browser to gather the navigation and content from sites. I want to be able to easily make my own instrumentation for sites that do not yet work on this browser. I’m want to allow some branding in the…

Mothra in Plan9 or the gemini protocol as suggested.

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

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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…

Your "Add Flow to Firefox" Link results in a 404 for me. It links to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enter-flow/ .

Not mine, but I'll pass the message on to the friend. I know they're focused on some other areas now. Thanks!
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