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

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Post by maydup-nem »

uxcolumbo wrote: post #199
maydup-nem wrote: post #184

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Innovative? I have been using qutebrowser for a while, and don't see the appeal of this. I just press a binding, start typing the name of the tab (fuzzy), get the list of matches, choose and there I am. As a basic example among many. Nyxt is just as powerful, if not more. If you like visual layouts like the one offered then OK, but not me, I think it's distracting and unnecessary. BTW the headline is blown af

Just because it's not useful or innovative to you, doesn't mean it isn't to others. It's always good to have more players in this game and to me what they are trying to do seems more approachable than the examples you showed.

> not useful or innovative to you,

the message wasn't about me or you, it was about browser space

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

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Post by hnlmorg »

hyferg wrote: post #209
hnlmorg wrote: post #201

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> It's always good to have more players in this game I agree with your overall points but this but stood out to me because it's not clear if Bonsai uses its own rendering engine of it is just another reskin of Blink / Chromium. What we really need is more competition with browsers which use their own rendering engines. Or at the very least, more browsers using Gecko (Firefox). If this is another Chromium-based browse…

I'll edit the readme of that repo to make it more clear. We're distributing the browser off of github so we don't have to pay for download bandwidth and because it integrates with our CI. Our website got 1TB of traffic yesterday (which it turns out I have to pay for) and thats without hosting the binary on our site!

Your website is a static page. You should put that behind CloudFlare (or similar) and get them to handle the traffic for you.

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

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Post by mirrorlake »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #75

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…

I've been dying for a browser mode that works more like Sublime's Distraction Free Mode (Shift+F11). The main thing I want is the browser to remain full screen, but render webpages as if the browser is about half-width. Blank columns on either side.

So many webpages with text are better if you view them at about half-width, and I often end up being forced to leave full screen and manually set the browser width to do this anyway. If anyone knows of an addon or script that accomplishes this, I'm curious to know about it.

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

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Post by vidarh »

mavhc wrote: post #200
maydup-nem wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Innovative? I have been using qutebrowser for a while, and don't see the appeal of this. I just press a binding, start typing the name of the tab (fuzzy), get the list of matches, choose and there I am. As a basic example among many. Nyxt is just as powerful, if not more. If you like visual layouts like the one offered then OK, but not me, I think it's distracting and unnecessary. BTW the headline is blown af

Is that the same as ctrl-shift-a in Chrome?

You can also just search tabs directly in the address bar (though then intermingled with other matches)

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

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Post by uxcolumbo »

hnlmorg wrote: post #201
uxcolumbo wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because it's not useful or innovative to you, doesn't mean it isn't to others. It's always good to have more players in this game and to me what they are trying to do seems more approachable than the examples you showed.

> It's always good to have more players in this game I agree with your overall points but this but stood out to me because it's not clear if Bonsai uses its own rendering engine of it is just another reskin of Blink / Chromium. What we really need is more competition with browsers which use their own rendering engines. Or at the very least, more browsers using Gecko (Firefox). If this is another Chromium-based browse…

Yes - agree with you, more players in the Browser engine space would be good.

I'm mainly using Firefox, but it's really becoming a resource hog and making my laptop fan spin more violently. I have a lot of tabs open.

But innovation in how to manage lots of tabs is welcome and this is what these guys seem to address too.

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

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Post by freediver »

donio wrote: post #88
hyferg wrote: post #19

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I'm using that repo to distribute the app since it works well with our CI. We could make the browser open source if we can find some paid services to run on a server and more importantly there is a potential community that is interested in its development.

For many of us switching to a closed browser in 2021 is a difficult proposition because of the security, trust and longevity issues. The value trade-off would have to be pretty extreme to even consider it.

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