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Re: Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

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found this on your ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog. having fun with it. set it up like my zen browser (with the sidebar + pinned tabs) and testing it out for my productivity stack at work. I themed out the glide-hint css via userChrome.css to better match my aesthetics. keep up the great work, i will be keenly following along. 1. https://freeimage.host/i/KMQu3EQ 2. https://freeimage.host/i/KMQAJ9t

Oh wow this is very cool, thank you for sharing!!

no worries, thanks to you!

Re: Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

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How many tabs do you have open on average? Do you ever have trouble finding tabs with just being able to see the favicon?

i typically have 5 tabs open, no more, no less. i always have them in the same order so that i can navigate via alt+1, alt+2, alt+3, etc.. one tab is always my personalised homescreen which has all the main links+software i use in a day. having them in the same order means i don't even need to look at the sidebar to navigate to them, it just helps to see what tab i am focused on sometimes. with glide you can also mak…

Huh. I always end up with a mini tab explosion every time I do anything intensive like skimming docs or shopping/product comparison. Does that ever happen to you? Or do you just close all the resulting tabs as soon as you're done?

Sorry if the questions are a little much; as a tab hoarder I'm always curious when productive people make do with small numbers of tabs.

Re: Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

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Pretty cool. I have been using Vimium[1] on Chrome which works ok. 1. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbai...

Does it work on chrome:// pages? That always bugged me about the Vimium Firefox port.

Vimium C has this option, you have to enable 'extensions-on-chrome-urls' flag.

Re: Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

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i typically have 5 tabs open, no more, no less. i always have them in the same order so that i can navigate via alt+1, alt+2, alt+3, etc.. one tab is always my personalised homescreen which has all the main links+software i use in a day. having them in the same order means i don't even need to look at the sidebar to navigate to them, it just helps to see what tab i am focused on sometimes. with glide you can also mak…

Huh. I always end up with a mini tab explosion every time I do anything intensive like skimming docs or shopping/product comparison. Does that ever happen to you? Or do you just close all the resulting tabs as soon as you're done? Sorry if the questions are a little much; as a tab hoarder I'm always curious when productive people make do with small numbers of tabs.

no worries about the questions, happy to share. i am pretty good at closing off unused tabs as i don't like the clutter.

for comparative work i use split tabs and for document skimming i use reader mode + anytime i feel overwhelmed i will start saving things to pocket to skim or search through later.

Re: Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

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Author here - happy to answer any questions :)

This looks awesome, great project! I'm wondering if the config is flexible enough to allow for setting up Helix/Kakoune style keybindings?

I'm not very familiar with Helix keybindings myself but if there are vim equivalents (and if they're actually implemented, a fair amount of mappings are missing right now) then you should be able to! There's a `motion` excmd you can use in your mappings.

I don't think it'll be possible to implement multi-cursor support through the config though unfortunately.

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