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Show HN: We launched a new web browser

#1
My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.

Check it out:

https://impervious.com/beacon

https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon

Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser

#2
Why not a web extension?

Why use a ENS/Namecoin versus a petname solution like GNS?

I like the idea of such a browser integration, but I don't see this actually being used. Perhaps you could have upstreamed those as experimental features in firefox/Torbrowser.

Edit: I suppose you could upstream it to brave, they are very crypto-friendly. Also, no Linux support?

Edit 2: Most of my points have been made moot by this: https://impervious.com/fingertip

Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser

#5
Congrats on the launch.

I think this indirectly slowed down the foreverdomains server with the HN traffic.

Since you advertise "decentralized internet" vs blockchain, I'd love to see this also support some more non-blockchain protocols such as Dat (https://dat.foundation/) and IPFS directly. Maybe even Bittorrent and Tor (Onion router).

It may already do some of that, I just couldn't tell from your wording.

Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser

#6
Why are you swallowing "error" from invoking the "reall" tool? That seems like a great way to make contributors really frustrated: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...

and again https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...

This trend of "I'm going to invent some build tool because there are not enough build tools in the world" is evidently leaking out of the node ecosystem

For clarity, I did see that this was inspired by the brave-browser model, but of the ones to draw inspiration from, that's for sure not it given that their CI is closed source and they're trying to use npm in lieu of a more structured, comprehensible system

I like trying out alternate browsers, so congratulations on the launch, and I'll for sure try to build it, but I wanted to draw these to your attention because my experience with software is that error handling is about 80% of the job

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