Really cool idea, looking forward to trying it out! My only complaint is that the default hotkey is the same as Alfred -- Is there any way to customize it?
Not right now. I'll add that to our todo list.
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#52I love that workflow-oriented browser ideas are popping up. Funny enough I just ran into Sigma OS browser earlier today, but haven't tried it yet: https://sigmaos.com/
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#53I was thrilled to see that SICMUtils, FDG and friends are there as one of the examples! This looks awesome, and thanks for taking a look at those projects :)
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#54Those seem like awesome features!
Hopefully it will be implemented in a non-Chrome browser one day, like Firefox/Gecko…
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The spatial organization thing looks pretty novel to me.
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…
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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…
Yes, but cound't you make an add-on that does those additional things? Or a service? Or both?
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#57Curious if you considered to write a window-manager instead, because that would allow programmers to use other applications besides webbrowsers. E.g. you could put a Mathematica window in a pane, while coding in another pane.
KDE (Plasma) makes this very easy, with tiling shortcuts and always-on-top features.
The other killer feature of Bonsai - grouping tabs - is far better done by Tree Style Tabs in firefox.
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#58Downloaded it, installed it, and loving it! The big thing I'm missing most is LastPass. Without access to my passwords, I can see myself falling back to Chrome. In fact, I need to keep Chrome running so I can look up my login names and passwords there in order to copy them over to Bonsai when I'm being asked to log in. If you could support popular password managers inside your browser, that would help a lot!
yeah, good suggestion. i'm trying to use a password manager on my first try. can't figure out how to without leaving the app.
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#59The whole concept of this browser is really great. It would solve a lot of my problems regarding where to properly store topics I'm doing research on (since I'm a student and knowledge junkie I tend to just dig for 10-15 resources and never get to reading them) My main question is what's your businesses model? You monetization plan?
Thanks! Our plan right now is to do a perpetual fallback license for $50 when we can prove the browser is something people want. We could make the browser free later on if we can provide paid features that require us to run servers.
Also what's your stand point about privacy?
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#60Downloaded it, installed it, and loving it! The big thing I'm missing most is LastPass. Without access to my passwords, I can see myself falling back to Chrome. In fact, I need to keep Chrome running so I can look up my login names and passwords there in order to copy them over to Bonsai when I'm being asked to log in. If you could support popular password managers inside your browser, that would help a lot!
You should drop any software that prevents you from changing another unrelated software. In other words, move from LastPass to Bitwarden.